University Park is a former census-designated place (CDP) in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was merged into Westchester CDP for the 2020 U.S. Census. In 2010, the population was 26,995. It encompassed the Modesto A. Maidique Campus of Florida International University. Description University Park was the name of the main campus of Florida International University (FIU) (now called the Modesto A. Maidique Campus), located in the area. The campus encompasses . Florida International University was built from around 1965 onwards, with the destruction of Tamiami Airport. At the time, very little was located around FIU, and the campus was referred to as University Park. As Miami grew west, the area came to be known as University Park after the university's campus name. Today, University Park houses all of the campus's colleges and schools as well as all the administrative offices and main university facilities. University Park is also home to Reagan House (formally known as University House), the home of FIU's president, the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, the Frost Art Museum, the International Hurricane Research Center, and the university's athletic facilities such as Riccardo Silva Stadium, FIU Baseball Stadium, and FIU Arena. Until the early-1990s, aerial pictures of the campus clearly revealed the features of the airport that used to occupy the land until 1969. Construction has obliterated all of these features, and only the University Tower remains as memory of the university's past. Today, University Park is home to about 87% of the student population and 94% of housing students. University Park is a lush, heavily vegetated campus, with many lakes and nature preserves, as well as an arboretum and has 92 buildings. Current construction at University Park includes an independent art museum for the Frost Art Museum, a Graduate Business School Complex, a Molecular Biology Building, a Student Services Building, a Social Sciences Building, a Medical School Complex, and an expansion to FIU Stadium for a seating capacity of 45,000. Geography University Park is located at (25.745178, -80.366124). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 10.6 km (4.1 mi2). 10.5 km (4.1 mi2) of it is land and 0.1 km (0.04 mi2) of it (0.98%) is water. Demographics According to the census of 2000, there were 26,538 people, 8,646 households, and 6,501 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 9,047 housing units at an average