Features
Beachfront living, golf course
Offering
both beachfront and outdoor living,
Miami centres on leisure facilities such
as golf courses, walking parks and
sporting clubs with swimming pools,
tennis courts, and activity and little
athletics centres frequented every
weekend by the local residents and their
children.
Its peaceful and relaxing beachfront is
patrolled by two surf clubs, Nobby Beach
SLSC and Miami SLSC and extends from
Nobby's Magic Mountain through to North
Burleigh. Three parks cover over a
quarter of the suburb's area. Miami
consists of established older style
apartments and expensive homes situated
along the beachside. Older beach houses
on smaller lots can be found on the
other side of the Gold Coast Highway.
Several retail properties run the length
of the Gold Coast Highway, mixed in with
the old motels that are slowly being
renovated or torn down to be replaced by
stylish and more modern holiday
apartments.
In the 1960s, holiday crowds would stay
in nearby motels and visit Magic
Mountain Entertainment Park, riding the
hill by the main attraction, "the
chair-lift". Today the Mountain is no
longer a theme park but home to
holiday-let apartments with sweeping
views of Nobby Beach to the north and
the south.
At the base of the mountain, retail
shops and restaurants are abundant. Just
a short walk around the south side is
the Miami High School, the Miami Tavern
and nearby Caravan Park, which attracts
travellers, fisherman and sporting
enthusiasts all year round. The small
Nobby Beach shopping village has grown
in recent times welcoming an overdue
'facelift' to the area. New and trendy
neighbours have moved in to sell fresh
fruit drinks and set up coffee shops and
exotic delicatessens.
Complete with barbecue and picnic areas,
Miami and Nobby Beach are situated on
one of the more popular coastal strips
of the Gold Coast. Every morning walkers
and cyclists can be seen using the
walking track that follows the beach and
winds up along a steep trail to a cliff
top lookout that divides the two
suburbs, offering breathtaking views up
and down the coast.
There are plenty of attractions around
Miami, particularly west of the highway,
including Pizzey Park that has a pathway
that weaves through pine trees and
around a lake.
The Miami Olympic Pool is another
landmark that has been a training centre
for the likes of Grant Hackett, Gian
Rooney and Ky Hurst, and there is also
the local Burleigh Bears Rugby League
Club, on Bob Singh Oval nearby, that has
been welcoming football players and
guests for more than 60 years. The Club
has recently been renovated to keep up
with the influx of rugby leagues
enthusiasts.
The ongoing revitalisation of this
suburb by developers, council and local
business has contributed to rising
property values in the area. Recently
Miami has been seeing a lot of new
developments and investor interests, as
well as owner-occupiers remaining at
home to renovate and add built-ons and
extensions to existing homes.
Community development has also been of
recent focus, with two community halls
available for hire within the suburb.
Rugby league is the predominant sport of
the region, with the local team, the
Burleigh Bears, supplemented by one of
the largest junior playing clubs in the
state. Miami's education facilities
include the Miami Primary School and
Miami State High School.
Source: REIQ
