Retail, Office, and a Gas Station Planned in Hialeah Gardens

What's being built at NW 138th Street and NW 107th Avenue in Hialeah Gardens?

An eight-acre vacant corner at the southeast intersection of NW 138th Street and NW 107th Avenue is under review for neighborhood commercial development — a gas station with a convenience store, outparcel buildings for retail and office use, a cell tower, and surface parking. The City of Hialeah Gardens lists it as Project P2603-0004, filed by Flightway Twenty Two, LLC, an entity tied to developer Blueteck. It went before the Planning and Zoning Board on August 24, 2026, and remains a proposal under review — not an approved project.

By Pedro Casanova | September 17, 2026

If you own a home within a mile of that intersection, this is the kind of filing worth reading closely. Not because a gas station changes your value overnight — it doesn't — but because what lands on a signalized eight-acre corner sets the tone for everything around it for the next twenty years.

Here's what's actually in the application, and what it changes for you.

What's actually in the application

That corner has sat vacant a long time. Indigo Properties and Linkvest Capital acquired the eight acres in August 2023 for roughly $5.83 million, through the entity Linkvest HG, LLC, with a stated plan to build free-standing retail. The site carries about 1,300 feet of frontage on NW 138th Street, and the ownership group counted more than 26,000 vehicles a day through the intersection at the time of purchase.

Now the plan has a shape. The city published a zoning notice for its August 24, 2026 Planning and Zoning Board meeting listing Project P2603-0004 — Flightway Twenty Two, LLC — requesting site plan review for:

• A gas station with a convenience store
  
  
• Outparcel buildings for commercial and retail uses
  
  
• A cell tower
  
  
• Surface parking, with a variance to provide 298 regular spaces where the code requires 322
  
  
• A special exception permitting a drive-through service facility under Section 78-45 of the city's Land Development Regulations
  
  

The parcel — folio 27-2029-001-0330 — already carries a Neighborhood Retail land use designation and B-1 neighborhood business zoning. That detail matters more than it sounds. The requests in front of the board are about site design, parking count, and the drive-through. Nobody is asking to rezone the land. Commercial was always the plan for this corner; the only open questions are what shape it takes and how the cars move through it.

As the South Florida Business Journal reported, the plan also includes a two-story building of roughly 82,000 square feet pairing ground-floor retail with second-floor office, and a RaceTrac fuel station. Blueteck has built a run of flex and commercial buildings across Miami-Dade under the Flightway name. An earlier application on this same corner, Flightway Seventeen, proposed 84,706 square feet across three buildings designed by Cabrera Ramos Architects.

The city hasn't published an outcome from the August board meeting as of this writing, and the project still needs council approval. Treat the square footage and the tenant mix as proposed, not final.

What new retail on your corner actually does

Three separate effects, and they don't arrive at the same time.

Convenience shows up last but matters most. There's already a retail cluster within half a mile of this corner — Publix, Home Depot, TJ Maxx, HomeGoods, Burlington. Retail concentrates, and a corner like this fills the gaps in the cluster: fuel, a drive-through, small-bay office space for the kind of business that doesn't need a Doral address. For a buyer comparing a Hialeah Gardens house against something similar in Doral or West Kendall, errands you can finish in fifteen minutes is a real line item, even if nobody writes it into the offer.

Traffic and construction show up first, and sellers are the ones who feel it. NW 107th Avenue is already approved for lane expansion to serve industrial growth to the north, and the intersection was carrying 26,000-plus vehicles a day back in 2023. Add a fuel station and a drive-through and you add turning movements, not just cars. Before that, you get a construction window — staging, truck traffic, and noise that typically runs twelve to twenty-four months once it starts.

If you're planning to list within that window, sequencing matters. A home that shows well on a quiet Saturday is a different listing when there's an excavator forty yards away. That's not a reason to panic-price, but it is a reason to be realistic about timing — and if your home is already sitting, the decision about when and how much to cut gets harder, not easier, once construction starts across the street.

Fuel station adjacency is its own question, and it's narrower than people assume. Appraisers treat a gas station as an external influence, and the adjustment tracks proximity and sightline more than distance on a map. A house that directly abuts the site or looks straight at the canopy can draw an adjustment. A house three streets back generally doesn't. If you're two blocks away, this is a convenience story, not a value story.

There's a second item worth checking, and it's concrete rather than speculative: underground fuel storage tanks in Florida are regulated and monitored by the Department of Environmental Protection, which maintains public records of petroleum contamination sites. If you're buying a home immediately adjacent to a new fuel station, that record is worth pulling during your inspection period — the same discipline as confirming a Miami-Dade house can actually be insured before your contingency expires. Verify it; don't assume it either direction.

And then there's the supply question underneath all of it. This project adds zero housing units. In a county where single-family inventory is tightening, that's not nothing. Miami-Dade's single-family median sale price reached $680,000 in August 2026, up about 4% year over year, with roughly 4,408 houses on the market — about 5.1 months of supply, which reads as balanced. Condos and townhomes ran the other way: a $420,000 median against roughly 11,899 units for sale, near 12.7 months of supply, which favors buyers. Those two halves of the market have been diverging for months now.

So if you own a house near this corner, commercial development is the friendlier kind. It improves the intersection without putting 200 competing listings on your street. That's the pattern across northwest Miami-Dade generally right now — commercial and industrial users absorbing the remaining vacant land, including at a much larger scale near Doral and Sweetwater — while the new residential supply lands further south and west.

What to do about it

If you own nearby:

• Pull the actual file. Hialeah Gardens Planning and Zoning, Project P2603-0004. The site plan shows building placement, lighting, and access points — the three things that decide whether this is background noise or a daily fact of your life.
  
  
• Watch the access points, not the square footage. Where the curb cuts land on NW 138th Street determines which streets absorb the overflow.
  
  
• If selling is on your two-year horizon, decide now whether you want to be ahead of the construction window or on the other side of a finished project. Both are defensible. Being caught in the middle is the expensive option.
  
  

If you're buying nearby:

• Ask for the site plan during your inspection period. The Florida Contract for Sale and Purchase gives you that window — it's there to be used.
  
  
• Check the FDEP petroleum contamination records for the parcel and anything adjacent to it.
  
  
• Get your insurance quote early, before you're committed to a closing date.
  
  
• Don't pay a premium for retail that hasn't been approved yet. If the seller is pricing in a RaceTrac and a two-story office building, remind them the board hasn't signed off.
  
  

Frequently Asked Questions

Has the Hialeah Gardens project been approved?

Not as of this writing. Project P2603-0004 went before the city's Planning and Zoning Board on August 24, 2026, and the city has not published the outcome. Site plan review, a parking variance, and a drive-through special exception were all part of the request, and council approval is still required.

Does the developer need to rezone the land?

No. The parcel already carries a Neighborhood Retail land use designation and B-1 neighborhood business zoning, so commercial use is permitted by right. The variance and special exception relate to parking count and the drive-through facility — not to changing what the land can be used for.

Will a gas station hurt my home value if I live a few blocks away?

Appraisal adjustments for a fuel station track proximity and direct sightline, not neighborhood membership. A property that abuts the site or faces it directly may draw an adjustment; a home several streets back typically does not. If you want a real answer for your specific address, it takes a look at the site plan alongside recent nearby sales.

What should I check before buying next to a new fuel station?

Pull the Florida Department of Environmental Protection records for petroleum contamination on the parcel and adjacent parcels, request the approved site plan from the city, and get an insurance quote before your inspection period closes. All three are doable inside a standard Florida contract timeline.

Is this adding any new housing?

No. The application covers retail, office, a convenience store, a fuel station, a cell tower, and parking. It adds commercial square footage and no residential units, which is why its main effect on nearby homeowners is about traffic, convenience, and construction rather than competing inventory.

An eight-acre commercial corner going from vacant to built is a slow story with a fast rumor cycle. The filing is real, the zoning already allowed it, and the approval isn't finished — which means there's still time to understand it before it affects a decision you're making.

If you own near NW 138th and 107th, or you're looking in Hialeah Gardens and trying to figure out whether this is a reason to move faster or slower, the answer really does depend on your address and your timeline. I'm happy to walk through it with you — you can grab a time here.

About Pedro Casanova

Pedro Casanova is a real estate broker that leads The KREN Group real estate team serving the Southeast Florida area. They specialize in helping people build wealth through real estate by helping buyers and sellers maximize their opportunity in every transaction. Connect with the team at www.thekrengroup.com.

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