Community Background Report

Town of Medley

County

Miami-Dade

Boundaries

North: Okeechobee Road
South: N.W. 74th Street
West: Florida Turnpike
East: Intersection of 74th Street and Okeechobee Road

Community Type

Municipality

History

The Town of Medley is named after its founder, Sylvester Medley, and was incorporated in 1949. Over the next twenty years the town experienced rapid growth, witnessing an influx of 325 industrial businesses, and a slight population increase up to 250 residents.

The Town of Medley has continued to be a hub for light and heavy industry in Miami-Dade County, and since 1969 has seen its population expand to one thousand full time residents, and is now home to over 1,500 businesses. While Medley only has a population of one thousand residents, its businesses attract 30,000 workers daily to the Town of Medley.

Community Dynamics

Medley has a population of 898 people with a median age of 48.9 and a median household income of $30,272. Between 2015 and 2016 the population of Medley declined from 998 to 898, a 10% decrease and its median household income grew from $27,857 to $30,272, a 8.67% increase.

The population of Medley is 96.8% Hispanic, 3.23%White, and N/A Other. 95.1% of the people in Medley speak a non-English language, and 69.8% are U.S. citizens. The most common foreign languages in Medley, FL are Spanish (922 speakers).

The median property value in Medley is $33,100, and the homeownership rate is 71.3%.

Business Landscape

Due to its position as a center of industry the Town of Medley attracts many workers, over 60,000 a day, to its businesses, suggesting that its economic impact is greater than is represented by its population statistics. Medley’s cement industry is responsible for roughly half of Florida’s cement production. The Town of Medley attracts both small and large businesses. Sysco Foods Services of South Florida alone occupies approximately 550,000 square feet of industrial space on its own campus. The following are industries located in Medley:

• The Southern corporate office of Florida East Coast Railroad and the FEC warehouse complex called Beacon Station.
• Urbieta Oil Company, one of the fastest growing privately owned Hispanic businesses in the United States.
• TA Associates/Gateway Properties, with more than 350 warehouses in Medley.
• U.S. Cold Storage.
• Aljoma Lumber Company, one of the largest lumber wholesalers in the Southeastern United States.
• Preferred Freezer Corp.
• FedEx
• AAR Corp.
• Seaboard Marine
• B/E Aerospace
• Navarro Discount Pharmacy
• Prologis

Medley is also home to U.S. Foundry, and the Titan America/Tarmac building products entity as well as SuperMix and Super Block, which also serve the construction industry. Lincoln Property Company with over 36 acres of land which includes 670,000 square feet of industrial warehousing. Imagina has programming and production studios World-renowned Imagina has completed a state of the art production facility on N.W. 74th Street.

Transportation Characteristics

The Town of Medley is conveniently located and accessible to all types of transportation resources. The Miami International Airport is three miles southeast and the Opa-locka Airport/ Metro-Dade General Aviation facility is six miles northeast. Nearby major roadways are the Homestead extension of the Florida Turnpike, the Palmetto Expressway, U.S. Route 27 and the Northwest 74th Street connector to and from Hialeah. In addition, the Town of Medley houses the Metro Rail Palmetto Station located at 7701 N.W. 79 Avenue as part of the Miami-Dade Transit system, which supplements the Miami-Dade Bus system. The FEC railroad freight line plays a vital role in the business community by servicing many Medley businesses along its tracks.