Doral's Cow Pasture To Be Replaced By Warehouses

While many people visit Doral for its sprawling golf courses and upscale food halls, there’s one longtime attraction that isn’t labeled on Google Maps: the “cow lot.”

The sprawling, 175-acre green space — situated on the corner of NW 107th Avenue and NW 41st Street — has long been a familiar landmark for Miami locals. Once owned by siblings Claudia Lemon Cook and Charles Buck Lemon and previously passed down through generations of the Lemon family, the land has been home to dozens of grazing (and occasionally mischievous) cows over the years.

But as one social media user recently pointed out, the beloved bovines have suddenly vanished. A photo posted on X on August 23 shows bulldozers and other construction equipment in place of the grassy field where the cows used to roam.

“I’m honestly sad that the Doral cow pasture is gone and they’re finally gonna develop the land after all these years,” user @majordouzie wrote on X.

What happened to the cows? State records show that in January 2022, Claudia Lemon Cook relinquished control of Doral Farms LLC to Bridge Point Doral 2700 LLC, an affiliate of the Chicago-based real estate development firm Bridge Industrial Acquisition. In March 2022, Charles Buck Lemon died at age 68, according to an online obituary. In June 2022, three months after his death, Doral Farms LLC officially sold the cow pasture to Bridge Industrial Acquisition, Miami-Dade County property records show.

While it’s unclear how much the development firm paid for the lot, the Lemon family previously asked for more than $300 million for the land. New Times was unable to reach Claudia Lemon Cook for comment about the sale.

The city has said the grassy lot will make way for “Bridge Industrial’s newest state-of-the-art South Florida logistics park,” Bridge Point Doral. Photo renderings of the campus, which is set to comprise more than 2.6 million square feet, depict rows of sleek multistory industrial buildings, tidy landscaping (including ponds), and a considerable amount of asphalt.

The project is slated to be completed next year.

Source: Miami New Times