John Stiles Collins.

Collins John

Collins Avenue and the Collins Canal both in Miami Beach and named in his honor.

Wooden

The original wooden causeway was replaced in 1925 by a series of arch drawbridges and renamed in the today known Venetian Causeway.

 

History of Miami Beach

Let me give you a slide introduction where the name Collins MB Properties finds its origin and inspiration. 

History

Collins Avenue was named afterJohn S. Collins, who was a land developer who had a significant impact on the infrastructure in Miami in the beginning of the twentieth century. He had built the first wooden bridge - “Collins Bridge”- which nowadays is the Venetian Causeway, one of the main connecting points from Miami Beach to the main land across Biscayne Bay.