Indian Creek Park Living Shoreline

S&ME provided the master plan and landscape architectural construction documents for the integration of a waterside promenade and “living shoreline” into the City of Miami Beach’s Indian Creek Park. The 1000 foot-long and 130 foot-wide urban waterfront park accommodates passive activities and is situated along a Biscayne Bay waterway and has a deteriorating seawall.

To meet the City of Miami Beach’s desire to address sea level rise and a failing seawall, S&ME created a “living shoreline” environment between the existing seawall and the new seawall, which is four feet higher in elevation. A comfortable eight foot-wide pedestrian promenade parallels the new seawall. The seawall cap has been designed to serve as a seat wall where users can take in views across the living shoreline and out to the waterway. To increase access to the basin environment and the adjacent waterway, S&ME introduced three overlooks that extend across the living shoreline and to the water’s edge. On the overlooks, the park users find themselves within the preserved Mangroves and Buttonwoods and above the new plantings of red, black and white mangrove and other tidal plants. Inlets at the north and south ends of the basin allow tidal seawater from Biscayne Bay to flush the basin daily. This work was completed as a sub-consultant to Brindley Pieters & Associates.