[1] The project was called a "mini-city" by The Miami Herald and has the first man-made lagoon in South Florida as well as plans for more than 4,000 residences, retail and office spaces, a medical facility, school, hotel and parks.
[3] Previous proposals for the site included an international exposition known as Interama that featured an amusement park in the 1960s, an indoor ski slope in the late 1990s in addition to several developments attempts in the 2000s.
In 2012, the City of North Miami leased the property to Oleta Partners LLC, a joint venture between Aventura's Turnberry Associates and New York-based LeFrak, for 200 years.
[2] In January 2019, Oleta Partners LLC completed work on The Shoreline, SoLe Mia's first 397-unit residential complex that was designed by Arquitectonica and Robert M. Swedroe Architects.
Laguna Solé, an 11 acre park and man-made lagoon, the size of 21 Olympic-sized swimming pools, was also completed at that time, which marked the end of the first phase of the project.