Kendall, Florida, United States

🇺🇸 Kendall is an unincorporated area and place in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida.

History Much of what is now Kendall was purchased from the State of Florida in 1883 by the Florida Land and Mortgage Company. It was named for Henry John Broughton Kendall, a director of the company, who moved to the area in the 1900s to manage the company's land. As the land was not open to homesteading, development was slow well into the 20th century. A post office opened in 1914, and the first school opened in 1929. After the end of the land boom in 1926, some residents left. Two Seminole camps were in the Kendall area, and Seminoles continued to live there into the 1940s.

Prior to the 1950s, the term "Kendall" was used to describe a region centered around U.S. Route 1, bounded by Snapper Creek to the north, the Everglades to the west, Old Cutler Road to the east, and the former community of Rockdale to the south. This area was largely uninhabited, generally consisting of pine rockland interspersed with fields and groves. As the region experienced rapid development in the 1950s, the moniker "Kendall" came to refer to the various communities built in the vicinity of present-day Pinecrest and the eastern half of the current Kendall CDP. When growth shifted west in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the usage of the term steadily shifted west concurrently, and today it is most often applied to the area more formally known as West Kendall. Prior to incorporation in 1996, the Village of Pinecrest was still included in the official boundaries of Kendall CDP.

Dadeland Mobile Home Park neighborhood near Kendall destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

In August 1992, Kendall and the surrounding South Dade area were severely damaged by Hurricane Andrew. Many of the homes and businesses in the area were destroyed. In the subsequent years, the area was slowly rebuilt.

Geography Kendall is located 14 miles (23 km) south-west of downtown Miami. It is bordered to the east by the village of Pinecrest, to the south-east by the village of Palmetto Bay, to the south by Palmetto Estates and Richmond Heights, to the south-west by Three Lakes, to the west by The Crossings, to the north-west by Kendale Lakes, to the north by Sunset, and to the north-east by Glenvar Heights.

U.S. Route 1 forms the eastern boundary of Kendall; it leads north-east to Miami and south-west 16 miles (26 km) to Homestead. The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike forms the western boundary of Kendall, leading north 10 miles (16 km) to Doral and south 18 miles (29 km) to its southern terminus at Florida City. The Don Shula Expressway (Florida State Road 874) crosses Kendall from north-east to southwest.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Kendall CDP has a total area of 16.6 square miles (43 km²); 16.1 square miles (42 km²) of it are land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km²) of it (3.03%) are water.

Transport Kendall is served by Metrobus throughout the area, and by the Metrorail at: •           Dadeland North (SW 70th Avenue and U.S. 1) •           Dadeland South (Dadeland Boulevard and U.S. 1); Both stations provide metro service from Dadeland to nearby commercial centres like the city of Coral Gables, Downtown Miami, and Miami International Airport. Dadeland South station is a major transit depot in the area, connecting the southernmost cities of Homestead and Florida City to Metrorail via limited-stop bus rapid transit along the South Miami-Dade Busway.

Economy Pollo Tropical has its headquarters in Dadeland, Kendall. The headquarters moved to Dadeland in 1994.

Kendall is the site of Dadeland Mall, an upscale indoor shopping mall in East Kendall with Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue and JCPenney as anchor stores. In South Kendall, directly south of Dadeland Mall on US-1 is The Falls (mall), an open-air shopping mall with Macy's as anchor store as well as a Regal Cinema.

Prior to its dissolution, Air Florida was headquartered in the Dade Towers in what is now the Kendall CDP.

Government and infrastructure The Miami-Dade Police Department operates the Kendall District Station in the CDP.

Education The first public school in Kendall was Kendall School, now renamed Kenwood K-8 Center. Kenwood is the site of the Kenwoods Hammock, a native forest planting which has become a world-renowned stop for bird watchers.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools serves Kendall.

Kindergarten - 12th grade • Instructional Center System Wide • Ruth Owen Kruse Education Center; High schools • Miami Killian High School is in the CDP. • Miami Palmetto High School in Pinecrest serves a portion of the CDP. • School for Advanced Studies (Kendall campus) • Miami Sunset Senior High School • Felix Varela Senior High School; Middle schools • Archimedean Middle Conservatory (charter) • Miami MacArthur South • Pinecrest Academy (North Campus) (charter) • Hammocks Middle School • Howard D. McMillan Middle School • Arvida Middle School • Miami Arts studio; Elementary schools • Academir Charter School West • Archimedean Academy (charter) • Bowman Foster Ashe Elementary School • Calusa Elementary School • Christina M. Eve Elementary School • Claude Pepper Elementary School • Dante B. Fascell Elementary School • Devon Aire K–8 Center • Dr. Manuel C. Barreiro Elementary School • Gilbert Porter Elementary School • Jane S. Roberts K–8 School • Kendale Elementary • Kendale Lakes Elementary • Kenwood Elementary • Leewood Elementary School • Oliver Hoover Elementary School • Santa Fe Advantage Academy (charter) • Sunset Park Elementary School • Vineland K–8 Center • Winston Park K–8 Center • William H. Lehman Elementary; Private schools • Atlantis Academy (K–12) • Calusa Preparatory School • Cattoira Montessori School (PK–5) • Children's Resources (PK–2) • Florida Christian School • Gateway Christian School • Greenfield Day School (K–8) • Islamic School of Miami • Kendall Christian School (PK–5) • Killian Oaks Academy • La Scuola (PK–3) • Learning Links Schoolhouse (K–5) • St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School (of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami) • St. John Neuman School (PK–8) - Established in 1981. • Westminster Christian School • Westwood Christian School.

Education: Universities • College of Business and Technology (Kendall Campus) • Kaplan University (Support Center) • Keiser University (Kendall Campus) • Miami-Dade College (Kendall Campus) • Nova Southeastern University (Miami Student Educational Center) • Polleo Institute (Tertiary education)

Education: Supplementary schools Miami Hoshuko, a weekend school for Japanese citizens, previously held classes at the Kendall United Methodist Church, now in Pinecrest but formerly in the Kendall CDP as of 1990.

Media Kendall is served by the Miami market for local radio and television. Kendall has its own newspaper, The Kendall Gazette, which is published twice monthly and is part of Miami Community Newspapers.