Bal Harbour is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The population was 3,093 at the 2020 US Census.

Since the 1920s, the Detroit-based Miami Beach Heights Corporation—headed by industrialists Robert C. Graham, Walter O. Briggs, and Carl G. Fisher—owned 245 acres (0.99 km) of undeveloped, partially swampy land that stretched from the niche to the Atlantic. Mr. Graham assumed the duties as the developer for Bal Harbour. In the 1930s, city planners Harland Bartholomew & Associates were called in to design the Village. The company made several plans, and they were submitted to the Miami Beach Heights for review.

The original name selected for Bal Harbour was Bay Harbour. However, the planning committee didn’t think that was seize for a city that was upon the beach. A declare was invented to encompass a village that ran from the niche to the Atlantic Ocean. The b was taken from the word bay and the a and l were taken from the pronounce Atlantic. Hence the word Bal was created.

In 1940, World War II began, and the plans were put on hold. As a goodwill gesture to the government, Robert C. Graham rented the house to the United States Air Corps for $1 per year. The Air Corps used this home to train their soldiers and usual a Prisoner of War camp. The ocean front area was used as a rifle range and the barracks were set up upon the west side of Collins Avenue. The camp for prisoners was located where the Bal Harbour Shops are presently.