Miami has a real wholesale produce district and it is small. It sits in Allapattah, bounded by NW 21st and NW 22nd Streets and NW 12th and NW 13th Avenues, and it covers eight and a quarter acres. Four of the suppliers on this page publish an address on NW 21st Street itself: Coto at 1201, Wholesale Solutions at 1215, Dal Campo at 1243 and WP Produce at 1471. Frank's Produce is one block north on NW 23rd, and Tocumen is on NW 22nd.
That land was bought by a developer in 2016 for $16 million. In 2019 the City of Miami approved a Special Area Plan for it by four votes to nil, moving it out of industrial zoning and into urban core, with a design by Bjarke Ingels Group for 1.35 million square feet of towers standing on stilts over the warehouses. The Miami Herald's description of what was underneath is worth quoting: three warehouses, each the length of two football fields, still operating as a produce market.
We can verify the purchase, the rezoning and the design. We cannot verify what happened next, so this page does not say. The paper trail in our captures stops at the 2019 approval, and whether a single tower was ever built, started, sold or abandoned is not something we found a source for. What is verifiable is that six companies still publish addresses inside or beside those four blocks and answer their phones.
It is worth being clear about what this page is not. Chicago and Baltimore are terminal-market pages: a public merchant list, a landlord, a tenant count. Miami has no public merchant directory, and the trade publication that covers this market explains why in one line. The Miami produce industry is very spread out, it says. There are companies all over the city, unlike many other wholesale terminals congregated into a market area.
