This just in: The Underline’s Brickell Backyard basketball court is one of 150 finalists in the Knight Cities Challenge. Congrats to the Miami teams that are finalists too. Lots of great ideas floating around our city!

The Underline: Brickell Backyard Outdoor Gym/Sports Field by Friends of The Underline (submitted by Meg Daly): Creating a sports field and gym as part of The Underline, a proposed 10-mile linear park underneath the Miami-Dade Metrorail, to provide quality of life incentives to talented young adults.

Other Miami finalists:
Thrive Kitchen by Opa-locka Community Development Corp.
First Taste: Little River by First Taste
Orange Blossom Parkway Bicycle and Pedestrian Trail for Proposed Hialeah Market District by city of Hialeah (
Community Asset Platform by Center for Applied Transect Studies
DomiNest
Living with Water
BlockWork Miami by Engage Miami
Open Source Democracy by Engage Miami
Miami Civic User Testing Group by Code for Miami
Biscayne Green

Read the Knight Foundation blog here and the Miami Herald coverage here.