The new 507-ft-long South West 1st Street bridge provides a stylish connection between downtown Miami and the Little Havana neighborhood, with a 315-ft double-leaf bascule span across the 125-ft-wide Miami River navigation channel.

When the American Bridge team was awarded the $56.8-million design-build contract to build its replacement, the original Pinellas Bayway bridge had reached the end of its useful life and had no dedicated multimodal capacities—and was often stuck open or closed.

A team of Granite and Boh Bros. scored highest on the first phase of the competition.