Editing Sunny Isles Beach, Florida (section)

==History==
[[File:View of Sunny Isles Beach From The Coast.jpg|thumb|300px|left|View of Sunny Isles Beach from the coast]]
In 1920, Harvey Baker Graves, a private investor, purchased a {{convert|2.26|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} tract of land for development as a tourist resort. He named it "Sunny Isles, the America [[Riviera]]".<ref name="sibfl1">{{Cite web | url=http://www.sibfl.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Adopted_Budget_10-11.pdf | title=FY 2011 Comprehensive annual budget | publisher=City of Sunny Isles Beach | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922203240/http://www.sibfl.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Adopted_Budget_10-11.pdf | archive-date=2017-09-22}}</ref>

When the [[Baker's Haulover Inlet|Haulover bridge]] was completed in 1925, the area became accessible from [[Miami Beach]], attracting developers who widened streams, dug canals and inlets and created islands and peninsulas for building waterfront properties on [[Biscayne Bay]].<ref name="sibfl1"/>

Sunny Isles Beach was known as North Miami Beach until 1931, then known as Sunny Isles until 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.citynmb.com/index.asp?Type=B_LIST&SEC={940536F0-DEED-4110-8BCC-F9503851CDF3}#{414FCEED-8369-4F28-8E41-9F5664664895} |title=Our History - City of North Miami Beach, Florida |publisher=Citynmb.com |access-date=2013-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517121824/http://www.citynmb.com/index.asp?Type=B_LIST&SEC=%7B940536F0-DEED-4110-8BCC-F9503851CDF3%7D#{414FCEED-8369-4F28-8E41-9F5664664895} |archive-date=2013-05-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1936, [[Milwaukee]] [[malt]] magnate [[Kurtis Froedtert]] bought Sunny Isles.<ref>"Buys Sunny Isles Development" Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 1936</ref> The Sunny Isles Pier was built and soon became a popular destination. Sunny Isles developed slowly until the 1950s when the first single-family homes were built in the Golden Shores area. During the 1950s and 1960s more than 30 motels sprang up along Collins Avenue including the Ocean Palm, the first two-story motel in the U.S. Designed by Norman Giller in 1948 it was developed and owned by the Gingold family for the next 45 years and provided the springboard for Sunny Isles economic development. Tourists came from all over to vacation in themed motels of exotic design along "Motel Row".<ref name="sibfl1"/> One motel, The Fountainhead, was named by its owner Norman Giller after the novel by [[Ayn Rand]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Judy |last=Cantor |url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1995-08-03/culture/kitsch-highway/ |title=Kitsch Highway - Page 1 - Arts - Miami |newspaper=Miami New Times |date=1995-08-03 |access-date=2013-07-20}}</ref> As of 2013, the Ocean Palm Motel is closed.{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}

In 1982 the half-mile-long Sunny Isles Pier was designated a historic site. In the early-mid 1980s, it went through restoration and re-opened to the public in 1986.<ref>{{cite news |date=20 July 1986 |first=Buddy |last=Nevins |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-07-20/news/8602120720_1_fishing-pier-pilings-sunny-isles |title=Restored Sunny Isles Pier Opens |newspaper=Sun Sentinel |access-date=2013-07-16 |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518211619/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-07-20/news/8602120720_1_fishing-pier-pilings-sunny-isles |url-status=dead }}</ref> The pier was damaged severely in October 2005 by [[Hurricane Wilma]]. After eight years, it was remodeled and reopened as Newport Fishing Pier on June 15, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bock |first=Daniel |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/21/3463564/sib-celebrates-reopening-of-newport.html |title=SIB celebrates reopening of Newport Fishing Pier - Aventura / Sunny Isles |publisher=MiamiHerald.com |date=2013-06-21 |access-date=2013-07-16}}</ref>

In 1997, the citizens of the area voted to [[Municipal corporation|incorporate]] as a [[municipality]]. Sunny Isles was renamed Sunny Isles Beach.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-09-13/news/9809190138_1_sunny-isles-beach-beachfront-community-residents |title=Voters To Pick City's Name |newspaper=Sun Sentinel |date=3 September 1998 |access-date=2013-07-16 |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518210059/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-09-13/news/9809190138_1_sunny-isles-beach-beachfront-community-residents |url-status=dead }}</ref> Sunny Isles Beach began major redevelopment during the real estate boom of the early 2000s with mostly high-rise condominiums and some hotels under construction along the beach side of Collins Avenue (A1A) replacing most of the historic one- and two-story motels along Motel Row. In 2011, construction began on two more high-rises, Regalia, located on the northern border of the city along [[A1A]], and The Mansions at Acqualina,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acqualinamiami.com/content/The-Mansions-at-Acqualina |title=The Mansions at Acqualina Acqualina |publisher=Acqualinamiami.com |access-date=16 July 2013}}</ref> located adjacent to the Acqualina Resort & Spa on the Beach.

{{See also|List of tallest buildings in Sunny Isles Beach}}