Edison Marketplace

645 NW 62nd Street, Liberty City, Miami, FL 33150

Edison Marketplace is a neighborhood shopping center developed by Otis Pitts Jr. through Peninsula Developers. This site is the project's living construction and development archive — plans, aerials, construction photography, deal architecture, completion record, and the biography of the developer.

The five-volume record

Volume I · The Ground — Overtown family origins, displacement by expressway construction, City of Miami police service, and Belafonte Tacolcy Center community leadership.
Volume II · The Pivot — the 1980 McDuffie period and the Tacolcy Economic Development Corporation (TEDC).
Volume III · The Method — Edison Center Business District (ECBD) base map, corridor planning, Edison Plaza, and housing.
Volume IV · The Build — Peninsula Developers and the construction of Edison Marketplace at 62nd Street and Seventh Avenue.
Volume V · The Ledger — the Section 108 accounting, what survived, and Otis Pitts Jr. in his own words.

Continuing the work: the Otis Pitts Jr. Foundation Corporation continues through GAP scholarships for college-bound young women.

Contact / corrections: otis@soulaans.io