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40-638: Bal Harbour is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida . The village is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida . The population was 3,093 at the 2020 US Census . Since the 1920s, the Detroit-based Miami Beach Heights Corporation—headed by industrialists Robert C. Graham , Walter O. Briggs , and Carl G. Fisher —owned 245 acres (99 ha) of undeveloped, partially swampy land that stretched from

80-594: A Prisoner of War camp . The ocean front area was used as a rifle range and the barracks were set up on the west side of Collins Avenue. The camp for prisoners was located on the site of what would become the Bal Harbour Shops. After the war ended, the Air Corps left the barracks buildings intact, which were converted into apartment homes by Graham in 1946. In order to incorporate a city in 1946, there had to be at least 25 male registered voters residing in

120-643: A city that was on the beach. A name was invented to encompass a village that ran from the bay to the Atlantic Ocean . The b was taken from the word bay and the a and l were taken from the name Atlantic. Hence the word Bal was created. In 1940, World War II began, and the plans were put on hold. As a goodwill gesture to the government, Robert C. Graham rented the land to the United States Air Corps for $ 1 per year. The Air Corps used this land to train their soldiers and established

160-582: A converted apartment building. Sheraton dates its founding to that year and considers that property its first hotel. The chain got its name from the third hotel the pair acquired, in Boston, in 1939. It had a large lighted sign on the roof saying "Sheraton Hotel," which was too expensive to change. Instead, Henderson and Moore decided to call all of their hotels by that name. Henderson and Moore purchased Boston's famed Copley Plaza Hotel in 1941, and continued expanding rapidly, buying existing properties along

200-461: A family was $ 83,570. Males had a median income of $ 51,227 versus $ 44,500 for females. The per capita income for the village was $ 67,680. About 5.6% of families and 9.2% of the population were below the poverty line , including 10.5% of those under age 18 and 6.7% of those age 65 or over. This data only reflects reported income, not overall wealth. As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 58.29% of residents, while Spanish

240-659: A hotel bearing the name of an international company in the People's Republic of China , when it assumed management of the Great Wall Hotel in Beijing , a financially troubled two-year-old Chinese-American joint venture, which became the Great Wall Sheraton. By 1987, The New York Times described it as "50 years old, the world's largest hotel chain, and consumer-driven." On October 24, 1989, Sheraton

280-416: A luxury enclave. In the words of Town & Country, Bal Harbour is the "ne plus ultra" of South Florida luxury. The Village, specifically its Resort Tax Committee, has invested in developing Bal Harbour's reputation as a luxury destination. The committee collects a specific tax which "must be used for among other tourism related activities, for the enhancement of tourism, publicity and advertising purposes." As

320-520: A major beach replenishment project. In 1984, the residents of an exclusive neighborhood in Bal Harbour were successfully sued to remove the clause preventing Jews and blacks from owning property there. In 2008, The new Regent Bal Harbour opened, becoming the northern gateway to the Village. In 2012, The last oceanfront undeveloped Beach Club site was sold for $ 220 million in order to make way to

360-766: A recession hit, and had been seized from its previous owner, the Aga Khan , by its creditors. The majority of these hotels were placed in the ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection, though a few were placed in the Sheraton division. In April 1995, ITT Sheraton introduced a new, mid-range hotel brand, Four Points by Sheraton , to replace the designation of certain hotels as Sheraton Inns. In 1998, Starwood acquired ITT Sheraton for $ 13.3 billion, topping an offer by rival Hilton . Under Starwood's leadership, Sheraton began renovating many hotels and expanding

400-431: Is located on the northern tip of the barrier island commonly referred to as Miami Beach, named after the island's most prominent town of Miami Beach . Bal Harbour is the northernmost barrier island in a chain that extends southward up to and including Key West, Florida . The main traffic corridor running south to north through Bal Harbour is Collins Avenue, also demarked as Florida State Highway A1A . A channel between

440-603: Is the senior high school serving Surfside. Village (Florida) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.237 via cp1104 cp1104, Varnish XID 208029804 Upstream caches: cp1104 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:51:46 GMT Sheraton Hotels and Resorts The origins of Sheraton Hotels date to 1933, when Harvard classmates Ernest Henderson and Robert Moore purchased

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480-606: The Eppley Hotel Company , which was then the largest privately held hotel business in the United States, with 22 properties across six Midwestern states. Sheraton retained ten of the largest hotels and immediately resold the other twelve. That same year, Sheraton acquired its first motels, purchasing two properties in the suburbs of Syracuse, New York. In 1957, Sheraton, which had previously focused on acquiring existing hotels, opened its first newly built hotel,

520-1069: The Moana Hotel , the Royal Hawaiian Hotel , the SurfRider Hotel, and the Princess Kaiulani Hotel . That same year Sheraton opened its first newly built motel, marketed as a "Highway Hotel," the Sheraton Inn, located in Binghamton, New York. The early 1960s saw the arrival of the first Sheraton hotels outside the US and Canada, with the opening of the Sheraton-Tel Aviv Hotel in Israel in March 1961 and two Caribbean properties in 1962 -

560-670: The Arabella Hospitality Group in Germany to create ArabellaSheraton, a joint venture under which 14 Arabella Hotels in Germany, Switzerland and Spain were rebranded as ArabellaSheraton Hotels. In 1999, Sheraton bought the outstanding shares in CIGA, giving it complete ownership. In 2015, Starwood introduced the "Sheraton Grand" brand, higher-end Sheraton properties located in urban or resort destinations. In 2016, Marriott International purchased Starwood Hotels, and

600-928: The Cario-Sheraton Hotel & Casino. In 1971 Sheraton opened its first hotels in Continental Europe , the Sheraton Stockholm Hotel and the Sheraton-Copenhagen Hotel. In 1972, Sheraton opened its first hotel in Sub-Saharan Africa , the Sheraton-Mont Febe Palace in Yaounde , Cameroon . From 1977 to 1997 the company was headquartered at 60 State Street in Boston. In 1985, Sheraton became the first western chain to operate

640-937: The Continental Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1937, Henderson and Moore purchased the Standard Investing Corporation and the International Equities Corporation, combining them into the Standard Equities Corporation, the company through which they would run their hotels. Also in 1937, they purchased their second hotel, and the first as part of the new company, the Stonehaven Hotel in Springfield, Massachusetts ,

680-832: The East Coast from Maine to Florida. In 1946, the Standard Equities Corporation merged with the United States Realty and Improvement Corporation, forming the Sheraton Corporation of America, which became the first hotel chain to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1947. In 1949, Sheraton expanded internationally, buying the Ford Hotels chain, with three properties in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. They quickly resold

720-959: The Kuwait-Sheraton Hotel. In 1967 Sheraton unveiled Reservatron II , a computer system for personalized reservations. That same year, Sheraton opened its first hotel in Asia, the Sheraton-Philippines Hotel in Manila; its first hotel in Europe, the Sheraton-Du Cap Hotel on the island of Corsica in France; and its first hotels in Australia, two Sheraton Motor Hotels in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1968,

760-596: The Philadelphia Sheraton Hotel. In 1958, Sheraton became the first hotel chain to centralize and computerize its reservations when it introduced Reservatron , the hotel industry's first automatic electronic reservations system. In 1959, Sheraton acquired its first properties outside North America, purchasing four hotels owned by the Matson Lines on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu , Hawaii -

800-966: The Sheraton-Kingston Hotel in Jamaica and the British Colonial Hilton Nassau in Nassau, Bahamas . In 1962, Sheraton created a franchise division, primarily to operate Sheraton Motor Inns, large highway motels providing free parking. In 1963 Sheraton opened its first hotel in South America, the Macuto-Sheraton Hotel, outside Caracas, Venezuela . In 1965 the 100th Sheraton property, the Sheraton-Boston Hotel, opened. In 1966 Sheraton opened its first hotel in an Arab country,

840-665: The Toronto and Ottawa properties to finance their continued Canadian expansion in 1950, paying $ 4.8 million to purchase Cardy Hotels, a chain of six properties in Ontario and Quebec. In April 1951, the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City would host the 1951 NBA draft , which was the second ever draft under the NBA name and fifth overall NBA draft in existence by that time. In 1956, Sheraton paid $ 30 million to buy

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880-405: The area. Graham had twenty five families move into the apartment homes that he had converted in order to qualify the Village for incorporation. He then hired Willard Webb, a Miami Beach tax assessor, to draft a charter for the Village. After the charter was completed, the Village of Bal Harbour was incorporated on August 14, 1946, by Graham and 25 male registered voters. The Village was operated under

920-541: The bay to the Atlantic. Graham assumed the duties as the developer for Bal Harbour. In the 1930s, city planners Harland Bartholomew & Associates were called in to design the village. The company made several plans, and they were submitted to the Miami Beach Heights for review. The original name chosen for Bal Harbour was Bay Harbour. However, the planning committee didn't think that was appropriate for

960-423: The beachfront and the residential areas. Collins Avenue was paved into four lanes with a landscaped median and later widened to the present day six lanes. Village plans indicated that ocean front property was to be 200 feet (61 m) deep and lots approached $ 100,000. Lots in the residential area were about 1,800 square feet (170 m) and cost from $ 6,500 to $ 20,000. The first hotel, "The Kenilworth By-the-Sea",

1000-455: The brand's footprint. Starwood also began marketing The Luxury Collection as a completely separate brand, even though it contained a large number of hotels still named Sheraton. Most of those properties have since been renamed. Only three such hotels remain today - Sheraton Addis in ( Addis Ababa , Ethiopia ), Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit in ( Bangkok , Thailand ), and Sheraton Kuwait in ( Kuwait City , Kuwait ). Also in 1998, Sheraton joined with

1040-463: The city manager form of government. The council established a volunteer fire department . Swampland was filled, sea walls were constructed and the yacht basin was created. Contracts were signed for the sewer systems, water pumping stations and utilities. Bal Harbour was the first planned community in Florida to have its utilities placed underground. Developers set guidelines for the development of

1080-564: The decade and into the eighties" but the jingle's lifespan went even beyond. In 1970, Sheraton introduced the Sheraton Towers concept, a line of luxury "hotel-within-a-hotel" facilities designed for business travelers and located within Sheraton's largest and most exclusive hotels. The first Sheraton Towers to open was in the chain's flagship Sheraton-Boston Hotel. That same year, Sheraton opened its first hotel in North Africa ,

1120-631: The first organization, was appointed as Village Manager. Mary Wetterer was named Village Clerk and Herold Dickey was appointed Chief of Police. In 1947, the Church by the Sea was built. In 1948, the Beach Club was built. Its restaurant was operated by Howard Johnson's . In 1949, a new bridge was started over Baker Haulover. In 1956, the current Village Hall was built. In 1956, the Hotel Americana

1160-580: The multinational conglomerate ITT Corporation purchased the chain and immediately sold eighteen aging Sheraton properties. Under ITT's ownership, Sheraton quickly moved away from ownership and operation of its properties to a new model of franchising and management, as the chain expanded greatly both in the US and abroad. In late 1969, Sheraton introduced the hotel industry's first nationwide toll-free number , which displaced two hundred local Sheraton reservation numbers. The radio jingle for "Eight-Oh-Oh, Three-Two-Five, Three-Five Three-Five" "ran throughout

1200-577: The newly merged company again became the world's largest hotel and resort company. Although the Sheraton brand expresses quality in Asia, aging properties have made the US market more problematic. In 2023, Marriott announced a new spinoff brand of Four Points by Sheraton, called Four Points Express by Sheraton, targeting the mid-range market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Its first property opened in Nilüfer, Bursa , Turkey that fall. In 2024,

1240-697: The north end of Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean runs across the northern end of Bal Harbour. A bridge, maintained by the State of Florida connects Bal Harbour to Haulover Park, to the north. Haulover Park is maintained by the Miami Dade Parks Commission. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 3,093 people, 1,364 households, and 720 families residing in the village. As of the 2010 United States census , there were 2,513 people, 1,366 households, and 637 families residing in

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1280-493: The result of an international destination marketing effort from 2014 to 2019 by the Village, per capita resort tax revenues for the Village of Bal Harbour grew by 35%. According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km). 0.3 square miles (0.78 km) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km) of it (42.37%) is water. Bal Harbour, Florida

1320-672: The ultra luxury Oceana at Bal Harbour. In 2014, The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour, Miami opened at the former Regent Bal Harbour and ONE Bal Harbour Resort & Spa. In 2015, it was reported in the press that "the Bal Harbour Police and the Glades County Sheriff set up a giant money laundering scheme, but it all fell apart when federal investigators and the Miami Herald found strange things going on." From 2015 onward, Bal Harbour has become known globally as

1360-413: The village population was spread out, with 10.2% under the age of 18, 3.7% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 37.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 55 years. For every 100 females, there were 75.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 73.6 males. In 2000, the median income for a household in the village was $ 47,148, and the median income for

1400-414: The village. In 2000, 9.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.1% were married couples living together, 4.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 57.4% were non-families. 50.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 24.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.73 and the average family size was 2.49. In 2000,

1440-530: Was at 35.14%, Polish at 2.63%, French 2.13%, Portuguese 0.99%, and Russian made up 0.82% of the population. Miami-Dade County Public Schools is the local school district. Ruth K. Broad/Bay Harbor K–8 Center in Bay Harbor Islands serves as the local elementary and K–8 school . Residents who want to have a conventional middle school may instead choose the zoned middle school, Miami Beach Nautilus Middle School. Miami Beach Senior High School

1480-565: Was built by Tom Raffington and made famous by Arthur Godfrey . It has since been demolished and is now the Kenilworth Condominium. The first home was built at 160 Bal Cross Drive by Robert C. Graham Jr., who was the son of Bal Harbour Developer Robert C. Graham. Construction for the Sea View Hotel was started. Bal Harbour Village was re-incorporated by a special act of the 1947 Florida Legislature and its own charter

1520-667: Was built. It became the Sheraton Hotel in 1980. It was imploded on November 18, 2007, to build a set of condos and a luxury aparthotel as the St. Regis Bal Harbour . In 1959, Bal Harbour's beach was renovated due to severe erosion. In 1965, the Bal Harbour Shops was built by the Whitman family. Stanley Whitman was one of the incorporators who lived with his family in the barrack apartments. In 1971, Bal Harbour's started

1560-437: Was issued June 16. This new charter supplemented the original incorporation under the General Laws of Florida. In accordance with the new charter, an election to select five to serve on the council was held June 30. The Council elected were: Edward L. Bonneau, Robert C. Graham Jr., Glenn E. Massnick, George Whittaker, and Judge Julien Southerland. Judge Southerland was chosen as mayor. Willard Webb, who had been acting manager since

1600-499: Was officially rebranded as ITT Sheraton. On January 13, 1992, ITT Sheraton designated 28 of its premier hotels and 33 of the Sheraton Towers as the ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection. The flagship of the division was The St Regis in New York City. In 1994, ITT Sheraton purchased a controlling interest in the Italian CIGA chain, the Compagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi, or Italian Grand Hotels Company. The chain had begun by operating hotels in Italy, but over-expanded across Europe just as

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