Seminole County Wilderness Areas
Miller Legg was awarded a five-year continuing contract with Seminole County to support improvements across the County’s natural lands, including eight wilderness areas, one preserve, and 20 passive parks. The scope of work encompassed design, permitting, and construction oversight for a variety of amenities such as boardwalks, observation towers, fishing piers, pavilions, and nature trails.
Notable projects included the Lake Harney Wilderness Area, where a 20-foot-high overlook was planned to rise through an oak forest, enhancing the already popular bird-watching destination, and the Geneva Wilderness Area, where improvements such as a boardwalk, fishing pier, and outdoor educational pavilion expanded environmental education opportunities at the Ed Yarborough Nature Center. At Black Bear Wilderness Area, a 1,650-acre preserve, enhancements included new boardwalks and an 8-mile loop trail, along with kayak access and shelters, positioning it as a hub for hikers and cyclists.
Miller Legg’s services for these projects included environmental assessments, natural resource and water level determinations, surveying, engineering design, construction documents, and securing permits through agencies such as the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD).
Related Projects
The City of Miramar replaced the Civic Center and Child Care building with a new one-story 24,000 SF building to accommodate its police substation, storage, administrative and other law enforcement and public safety facilities, in addition to a surface parking lot for safety vehicles.
The new building was certified LEED Gold certification.
1212 Lincoln Road is a six-story mixed-use redevelopment project on Alton Road between Lincoln Road and 16th Street on Miami Beach. The project includes approximately 67,000 SF open marketplace, 26,000 SF retail space, 46,000 SF hotel space and a 300-space structured parking facility.
Miller Legg provided a full suite of civil engineering services for the LEED Gold Miami-Dade College Medical Campus Center for Learning, Innovation and Simulation project. The Center is 132,470 SF, 5-story academic building and accompanying garage, with spaces to simulate a real-world hospital environment, mainly for the medical school’s nursing and physician assistant programs.
Miller Legg provided civil engineering, utility engineering, permitting, construction observation and verification of system testing services for the development of the 120,000 SF mixed use development in Miami Beach with Baptist Health as the anchor tenant. Alton Road is a FDOT corridor. Services include grading, paving, drainage, water and sewer systems, drainage design including a pressurized injection well system and injection pumping equipment, utility coordination and permitting.
The City of Miami Morningside Park created an expanded and improved tennis facility at this 42-acre Park. The project included improvements to an existing seven (7) courts that had experienced degradation due to drainage and soil stabilization issues. A new court layout was developed to increase the facility to eight (8) lighted courts and a warm-up training wall amenity. Other tennis improvements included upgraded lighting, fencing ad shaded bench area.
