I just want curious about Hialeah? Any intresting. :)

its very interesting, it was marketed as one of the first suburbs of miami and had buses that would bring people out there to see the plots of land they could buy. now it is a very distinct community with an interesting mix of industry commercial and residential based on its proximity to the airport and the highway though i havent spent much time there i can definetely say you know you are somewhere else and the street #/name changes can be confusing for newbies.

Yea I use to live there, it was the 'suck'. It's a lowclass suburb...
Trust me I lived there for like 6 years.

Yea I use to live there, it was the 'suck'. It's lowclass suburb...

Really? I thinks that Hialeah is mainly middle class neighborhood.

It used to be the densest city in the US without a skyscraper (Bldg over 12 stories)...

I don't know if it still is...

Really? I thinks that Hialeah is mainly middle class neighborhood.

Dont get Hialeah, and Miami Lakes confused. Even though they both border eachother closely and are seperated by the overpassing palmeto. Miami Lakes = Middle Class/Wealthy, while Hialeah = Low class/Middle Class.

Hialeah = illegal additions to houses that look crappy added with chickens and roosters along with junked tires and cars in the front yard....obviously this isn't ALL of Hialeah but it's a fair description of what the bad parts are like.

It's the city with the largest amount of Spanish speakers in the U.S. (80%+). Also its Metrorail station is one of the most used in the system.

Dont get Hialeah, and Miami Lakes confused. Even though they both border eachother closely and are seperated by the overpassing palmeto. Miami Lakes = Middle Class/Wealthy, while Hialeah = Low class/Middle Class.Just looked up the demographics/income of Hialeah (city).
Median Income $32,108
Average Household Income $37,463
88.8% of the population is considered Blue Collar by MOSAIC.
Not poor by any stretch of the imagination.

Hialeah is the fifth biggest city in the state of florida, beating out Orlando by almost 20,000 people. Its also obviously the second biggest city in the county.

This is the reputation Hialeah gets in the miami herald.

Posted on Sun, Feb. 19, 2006

IN MY OPINION
The Hialeah Marlins? Yeah, this team is really in trouble
By DAN LE BATARD
dlebatard@MiamiHerald.com

Marlins president David Samson says the potential stadium deal with Wayne Huizenga for land near Dolphins Stadium is all but dead.
The above is a terribly sad sentence.
Samson says the most plausible local option for a new baseball stadium is now Hialeah.
The above is one of the funniest sentences in the history of words.
The Hialeah Marlins? You could lock Dave Chappelle, Ali G, Frank Caliendo, Jon Stewart, Dane Cook and an armed United States vice president in a room for a decade and not produce something more uproarious than that. Say this on behalf of Hialeah politicians more competent than their Washington counterparts: When Hialeah lawmakers shoot their friends in the face, it is never, ever an accident.
Hialeah is viable for the Marlins at least in part because you can obviously get permits to build anything there.
As a bonus, some funding can come from the mayor selling suits out of the back of his van.
The swaying stadium can help the economy by selling out in the offseason for cock fights.
But there is going to be some national controversy when a new tradition gets introduced to the national pastime -- the seventh-inning animal sacrifice.
At least there is something unifying about being able to marvel at how much the Marlins stink in two languages, three if you count the booing and heckling there will be in Spanglish.
PLAYFUL MOCKING
Before my hermanos get outraged about the fostering of stereotypes, I'm playfully mocking my own here. I'm Cuban-American.
My father spent two decades working in one of those charming Hialeah factories before retiring.
And my people tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about the quirky, insane place the Marlins are now considering.
That's how all those dead people kept re-lecting ex-Hialeah mayor Raul Martinez.
And that's the only way you can explain a popular warehouse store in Hialeah named ''ño Que Barato.'' The first word in the store's name is half of an all-purpose Spanish curse word. The last two words are ''How Cheap.'' So there is actually a popular store in Hialeah essentially named ``Damn How Cheap.''
Which, come to think of it, is a pretty perfect name for the new stadium for your Hialeah Marlins.
That's not much of an advertising slogan -- Come see Dontrelle Willis, Miguel Cabrera and Damn How Cheap! -- but at least it would be honest.
Another option would be, ''Come to Rick Sanchez Field, where the coffee is a lot stronger than the team!'' For political reasons, we're probably going to have to avoid a domed place known as The Castrodome.
SOME GOOD NAMES
Listeners of my radio show produced a number of good name possibilities, too many of them involving food.
Some nominees: Frijoles Field. Sedanos Stadium. Picadillo y Pastelitos Park. El Cortadito. Samson's House Of Empanadas & Beisbol. La Casa That Pepe Built. Santeria Stadium. Hialeah Park At Your Own Risk. Hialeah Parkie, No Blockie.
For those fluent in Hialeah Cubonic, there's also ''Agua, Fango and Factoria Stadium'' (Water, Mud and Factories) or El Tibor (A place where kids urinate outside bathrooms). And my personal favorite delivered in Scarface's best accent: Say Hello To My Little Field!
Samson says, in all seriousness, that Hialeah is now South Florida's best hope for keeping this baseball team. You can't make stuff like this up -- Hialeah entrusted with saving major-league baseball for South Florida.
And if you thought our baseball team's recent flirtation with Las Vegas, Portland, Ore., and Oklahoma City was merely political posturing to extort public funds, know that these new talks prove in the loudest way possible that the Marlins are indeed in trouble.
Never mind the trading away of all those players. That was merely an appetizer.
You don't consider making Hialeah your home unless you are a special kind of desperate.

Hialeah Park At Your Own Risk and Hialeah Parkie, No Blockie.Classics.

LMAO!!! Hialeah Marlins!!! I know my Boca proposal was a little far 'fetched, but Hialeah Marlins cracks me up. Ah, I guess Hialeah isn't as bad as we make it seem. At this point, having a stadium anywhere down here would be nice.

If I were going to start investing in real estate now, there are basically two places I'd do it: southern/downtown Hialeah, and the area around Hialeah Metrorail station. I think both are going to be the next major areas to boom. Think about it... southern Hialeah is basically 15-20 minutes from downtown & South Beach via 112, 10 minutes from MIA (yet almost entirely out of its flight path), and generally safe. Not necessarily pretty (yet), but that's the first thing to improve once prices start to soar. Compared to Wynwood and the upper eastside, Hialeah's literally Coral Gables.

As for the area by Hialeah Station, well... humor me for a moment. Let's imagine that FDOT or Dade County eventually extends the Hialeah Expressway the final half mile west to a proper interchange at 826 (or at least builds an overpass over 72nd Ave to eliminate the traffic light there). Remember, the eastern end is near Hialeah Station. Now let's imagine that the industry around Palmetto station has been bulldozed to the ground, and the whole area now looks like Dadeland on steroids AND crack, with signs advertising preconstruction condos "from the low 600s" in "Downtown Doral" (even though it's technically Medley) everywhere... OK, it's not happening next year, or even in 3 or 4 years. But fast forward to 2012-2020. Is it REALLY that inconceivable? Doral has ALREADY spilled over into Medley, and I find it hard to believe that the people who own properties around Palmetto Station haven't been driving around Dadeland and thinking, "Hmmmm...."

It's amusing to watch people's reactions when I tell them what I just wrote. Most Cubans respond with, "eeeewwwwwww!" and act like they'd rather die than live in Hialeah. Most Anglos, in comparison, respond with, "hmmmmmm" and admit that they HAVE been looking at homes in the area. It's as much about attitude and perception as it is about reality. Call it a hunch, but I suspect the same story played out 10-20 years ago in cities like Chicago, when people talked about buying properties in "Polishtown" and other ethnic neighborhoods that were run down and not pretty... but generally safe, and where you could get a HELL of a deal on a demolishable house on a lot zoned for 2-3 family residences (read: expensive townhomes) 5 minutes north of the Loop and two blocks away from a subway station.

There are some areas in hialeah that are nice there are others that are very shabby. Hialeah is not cheap as people might think. The houses are in the price range of $250k+ the condo conversions 1/1 are starting at $140k+ which if you want to invest & rent out it's hard to get good $ for, the taxes I find high for the area. I own a 2/2 condo on a 4-plex bldg. in a descent area which I rent out, I got it at a good deal because the owners had to sell quick & I had known them for years. The taxes came to $2600, 980 sq.ft. which I think is high for hialeah specially when they don't even take care of paving streets so where is the $$ going? So, it's not cheap to purchase there, residents know what is going on in the real estate world. They will not settle for little money. Now there is word that west hialeah pass the bridge on 28th ave will extend to Miami Gardens. That is also considered Hialeah as many think of it as part of Miami Lakes.

Is there anything new with Hialeah, I recently moved here and think just like miamicane said, this place has potential.

Hialeah picture? Why isnt their any photos of hialeah in this thread?

if you think about it for a while you'll figure out the answer maki

Maki, you'll figure it out if you think about this thread for a minute.

Miami is a unique city with its many tall suburbs,it would be nice to see Hialeah build some tall skyscrapers.

hialeah has a starbuck coffee

hialeah has a starbuck coffee

I think Nome, Alaska and Enid, Oklahoma probably have a Starbucks at this point.

They remain unknown in rural Mongolia, the Solomon Islands, and parts of Antarctica, however.

hialeah has a starbuck coffee


That should get the "dumbest comment of the year" award :lol:

^^ :lol:. Is there a city without a starbucks??

That should get the "dumbest comment of the year" award :lol:

i have a friend in hialeah that said starbucks coffee opened like 2 or 3 months ago.

That should get the "dumbest comment of the year" award :lol:

Nope sorry, you just beat Kevins out right there.:nuts:

Nope sorry, you just beat Kevins out right there.:nuts:

yea :lol:

Nope sorry, you just beat Kevins out right there.:nuts:

^^ And that one beats out mine.

I dont understand what the heck you guys are saying :ohno:. "you just beat kevins out right there" ?? What does that mean?

I think Nome, Alaska and Enid, Oklahoma probably have a Starbucks at this point.

They remain unknown in rural Mongolia, the Solomon Islands, and parts of Antarctica, however.

oh yea and i think the north pole has one 2 right? :lol: :lol: :lol:, and 2 answer your question maki chan, i dont know what they are talking about either. haha

will and coruna explain what the hell u are saying?

Kevin, if you dont know what im talking about than why, oh why did you agree with me five posts up?

^^ And that one beats out mine.

ME?? BEAT YOU??? Aw dont flatter me coruna.

just get back to topic guys, is anyone going to post pics of hialeah? thats what this thread is for, im going to ask that hialeah dude to take some pics.

This entire thread is always off-topic nowadays.

This entire thread is always off-topic nowadays.

yea, most of the threads are off topic these days.

When was this thread ever on topic? Its called Hialeah Pictures? WHERE ARE THEY????

Yea I use to live there, it was the 'suck'. It's a lowclass suburb...
Trust me I lived there for like 6 years.

OK you are 16 years old, that means minimum you were 10 when you first lived there. I am sure that you do not remember when Hialeah saw better times. Yes it has it's problems but hey you are in Miami and it isn't any better there.

Hialeah Facts:
-Has it's own Class 1 Fire Department (only 113 in the whole country)
-Has it's own Police Department
-Has it's own Water & Sewer Department
-Has it's own Garbage Pick-up and Recycling
-Has it's own Natural Gas Company
-Better public parks and park programs than any city in Miami-Dade, even has 3 small water parks.
Parks and Recreation: 3 tennis centers, 5 public swimming pools, and 14 public parks totaling more than 100 acres. Milander Park with a municipal auditorium and a 10,000 seat football stadium.
-5th largest city in Florida

Drive through the city and most streets, traffic signals, sidewalks, sewer drainage is 10 years or younger.

Hialeah's entrance via Okeechobee

http://www.hialeahfl.gov/images%5Cphotos%5Cphoto_Main05.jpg

http://www.hialeahfl.gov/about/history/images/intersection.jpg

http://www.hialeahfl.gov/about/history/images/race.jpg

http://umsis.miami.edu/~cwhitloc/Festival%202/ItalianRenaissanceFestival/images/15.jpg