Lake Hilda is a community of townhomes and single-family residences in Miami Lakes.
It is located north of the Gratigny Expressway, and is bordered by Northwest 67th Avenue, Miami Lakeway South and Alamanda Avenue.
Built in the late 1960s, Lake Hilda is the second oldest Miami Lakes neighborhood after Lake Patricia, which is just across Northwest 67th Avenue.
The Sengra Corporation, later known as The
Graham Companies, built Lake Hilda. Streets are named after trees (Bamboo Street, Crooked Palm Lane, White Oak Drive).
Amenities
There are five tot lots. Miami Lakes K-8 Center, at 14250 NW. 67th Ave., is at the northeastern corner of the neighborhood.
Among the community’s 111 single and two-story homes are 50 townhomes, said Miriam Duman a homeowner and former vice president of the Lake Hilda Homeowners Association.
She and her husband, Thomas Duman, have lived in Lake Hilda since 1998.
Miriam Duman said most of the homes were built on the lake.
The smaller homes are two bedrooms and two bathrooms; larger houses have five bedrooms and three baths.
Duman said residents own their homes and there are some are renters.
What does it cost?
She said the HOA is
no longer active, but each owner pays $157.92 each year to the town to clean and maintain the lake.
“The lake looks great,” Duman said.
Jeremy Bajdaun, the town’s special projects man- ager, said Miami Lakes had contracted with a lake maintenance vendor to service the lake 18 times per year, stock it annually with fish and administer the contract and operations.
Lake Hilda has five pocket parks maintained by the town.
Duman said there are no homes currently for sale in Lake Hilda.
During the past nine years, 12 homes were sold, according to Estately.com, the three most recently in 2020.
That’s when a three bedroom, two bath home sold for $357,000, another that size went for $340,000 and a third, two bedroom, one bath home sold for $325,000 according to the website.
Who lives there?
Duman said there are residents of all ages in the community.