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Miami Lakes, Miami-Dade County: licensed businesses
Active food service, lodging and alcoholic beverage licenses placed in Miami Lakes from DBPR's license files, by type, with new licenses by month.
Active licenses as of DBPR's extracts of Sep 28, 2026 (food service), Sep 28, 2026 (lodging) and Oct 1, 2026 (alcoholic beverages). New lodging licenses exclude vacation rentals, which have their own count.
New licenses
New licenses by monthMiami Lakes12 months to Aug 2026: Food service 1; Lodging, except vacation rentals n/a; Vacation rentals n/a; Alcoholic beverages 1
New food service and lodging licenses by the month DBPR approved them, from the new establishment files, initial licenses only. Alcoholic beverage licenses by the month first issued, licenses still active only, so earlier years understate openings. A month inside a published file with no new license is zero; a month no file covers is left blank. Closures recorded since the first extract: Food service 0, Lodging, except vacation rentals 0, Vacation rentals 0, Alcoholic beverages 0.
New licenses by month, last 12 months
| Month | Food service | Lodging, except vacation rentals | Vacation rentals | Alcoholic beverages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Nov 2025 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| May 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| 12 months | 1 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
n/a: no published file covers the month. See the explained gaps on the sources page.
Active licenses by type
| License type | Division | Code | Active | DBPR summary | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food service, non-seating | Food service | 2010-NOST | 4 | ||
| Food service, seating | Food service | 2010-SEAT | 73 | ||
| Mobile food dispensing vehicle | Food service | 2014-MFDV | 3 | ||
| Hotel | Lodging | 2001-HOTL | 2 | ||
| Motel | Lodging | 2002-MOTL | 1 | ||
| Nontransient apartment | Lodging | 2003-NAPT | 17 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, single | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-SNGL | 9 | ||
| Club | Alcoholic beverages | 11C | 1 | ||
| Club, golf | Alcoholic beverages | 11CG | 1 | ||
| Beer, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 1APS | 1 | ||
| Beer and wine, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 2APS | 9 | ||
| Beer and wine, consumption on premises | Alcoholic beverages | 2COP | 22 | ||
| Liquor package store (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 3PS | 4 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP | 4 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special hotel or motel | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-S | 1 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special food service (restaurant) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SFS | 14 |
Temporary event food vendors are in DBPR's file but not its summary, and are not counted. An alcohol license is active at primary status 20, Current; DBPR publishes no current alcohol summary to compare with.
Hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and transient apartments
Every active license of these types here, with the rental units DBPR records. Apartments, rooming houses and vacation rentals are counted above and listed in the county CSV.
| Name | Type | Address | Units | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SONESTA HOTEL MIAMI LAKES | Motel | 15700 NW 77TH CT, MIAMI LAKES 33016 | 151 | MOT2322655 |
| LA QUINTA INN & SUITES MIAMI LAKES | Hotel | 7925 NW 154 ST, MIAMI LAKES 33016 | 97 | HOT2320229 |
| CANDLEWOOD SUITES MIAMI LAKES | Hotel | 8079 NW 154 ST, MIAMI LAKES 33016 | 94 | HOT2327711 |
Of 166 active licenses here, 148 are placed in a city by their geocoded location (124 matched exactly by the Census geocoder) and 18 by the city name as filed, where the address could not be placed. Unincorporated means outside every Census incorporated place in the county.
Sources on this page
- Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation: public food service license files, public lodging license files (Division of Hotels and Restaurants, one file per district, refreshed weekly) and the retail alcoholic beverage license file (Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco). Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- Validated against DBPR's own summaries on every build: the statewide license summary (HR400A, dated Oct 1, 2026) and the county license and unit summary (HR400C, dated Oct 1, 2026), by license type, within 1.5% or 15 licenses for the days between the weekly extract and the monthly summary. The retail alcohol file is compared with DBPR's all licensees file, series by series and county by county, exactly. The last alcohol count DBPR posted by county is dated July 1, 2021 and is carried in the published counts download.
- Locations. Every license address was geocoded with the US Census Bureau batch geocoder (current benchmark) and placed in a Census incorporated place (TIGERweb, retrieved 2026-10-01) by point in polygon. DBPR publishes no GIS layer of its licenses.
- Sources and methods.
Download the data
Miami-Dade County licenses CSV Every license, statewide (CSV, gzip) New licenses CSV (gzip) DBPR published counts CSV
One row per license with its type, status, address, county, geocoded coordinates, the city it was placed in and how. The new licenses file has every approval with its month; the published counts file has every figure from DBPR's summaries since 2017.