Miami, Florida
Signature Bridge under construction, Miami
Signature Bridge under construction, Miami
South Beach, Miami
Brickwell in Miami, Florida
Downtown District, Miami
Multilane highway crossroads in Miami
Construction site in Sand Lake, Florida
Signature Bridge under construction, Miami
Highway intersection, Florida
Seminole Expressway, Florida
Florida's Turnpike
- Miami is repositioning itself as the new economic hub of the United States: employment growth, a demographic boom and infrastructural investments are transforming the city into a centre of gravity for business, finance and innovation.
- In the urban heart of Miami, the Signature Bridge — the new sculptural bridge — is taking shape, improving urban mobility and connecting I-395, I-95 and SR 836.
- The Signature Bridge project reflects Florida’s strategy: creating more sustainable, interconnected metropolises thanks to modern, intelligent infrastructure.
- Miami accelerates its run as an economic capital thanks to rising GDP and growing job numbers.
- Lane Construction and Webuild play a key role in Florida’s sustainable development through the construction of new strategic infrastructure.
Miami is used to pushing boundaries: geographical, climatic, economic, even symbolic. From Miami’s South Beach to the towers reflecting the Atlantic sun, the city is redesigning itself as America’s new centre of gravity for business.
The transformation is tangible even in the drive toward new infrastructure: major works such as the new Miami bridge, rising in the urban heart of the city and aiming to change not only mobility but Miami’s very image.
This is the Signature Bridge, a project launched by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to connect the I-395, SR 836 and I-95 arteries, and which should be completed by 2027. The Miami bridge project involves the construction of a work formed by a system of steel arches spanning Interstate 395, with a sculptural design destined to reshape the Downtown Miami skyline.
The aim is not only to decongest traffic between the airport, the port and the main metropolitan routes, but to stitch the city back together. Beneath the Signature Bridge a linear park of more than 50 acres will be created, with pedestrian paths, green areas and public spaces reconnecting the neighbourhoods of Overtown, Edgewater and Biscayne Bay.
Beyond the Signature Bridge: A Sustainable, Human-Centred Metropolis
The challenge for the city administration and the State of Florida is to build vibrant metropolises with major technical and urban elements, while simultaneously managing ever-growing traffic flows, thanks also to the use of sensors for continuous structural monitoring and artificial-intelligence-based systems for mobility control.
The Signature Bridge arrives at a moment of great economic ferment for the Miami area. According to data from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, the private sector gained over 24,000 jobs in the twelve months to January 2025, with growth of 2.1%. Between 2018 and 2023, total employment increased by 6.7%, well above the national average. Miami-Dade County’s GDP grew by 3.5% in 2024, compared with +2.8% at national level.
Confirming its ambition to assume the role of a new economic capital, early November saw the American Business Forum 2025 held in Miami, with over 40,000 participants including entrepreneurs, investors and leaders from American and international industry and finance. The stage alternated between executives from technological and financial giants and leading figures from the energy and Artificial Intelligence industries.
The event marked a paradigm shift: Miami is no longer only a tourist or real-estate destination, but a platform for the continent’s economic decisions.
Major Works to Support Miami’s Sustainable Development
The city’s renewed entrepreneurial drive is also demonstrated by the presence of over 60 international banks, a number that establishes Miami as the financial and technological hub of the western hemisphere.
The revitalised dynamism has also changed perceptions of safety and quality of life: the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce estimates that in the last four years the city has attracted more than 150,000 new high-income residents, largely from New York, Chicago and California, with a flow that appears set to increase.
In this context, the role of Lane Construction, a company controlled by the Webuild Group, takes on strategic significance for Florida’s framework, with works on corridors that strengthen mobility and development. Among these are the expansion of the Seminole Expressway/SR 417, the I-275/I-4 Downtown Interchange project in Tampa, and the intersections between I-4 and Sand Lake Road and between I-4 and SR 535 in Orange County.
With the strengthening of its road backbone, the improvement of connections between logistics hubs, the durable development of metropolitan areas and the enlargement of key corridors, Florida — and Miami in particular — are literally building their own future.
Within this context, the Signature Bridge too, with spans that will light up at night to create arches of light above Biscayne Boulevard, will narrate the ambition of the new Miami, shaped through aesthetics, safety, environmental sustainability, mobility and economic attraction.
