Key Hardware
Key Hardware - Ace Hardware - Key Biscayne
800 Crandon Blvd Key Biscayne, FL 33149
(305) 361-2118
Key Hardware is so much more than a neighborhood hardware and housewares store. Key Hardware is an intricate part of the very fabric of Key Biscayne life. Living on an Island, even Key Biscayne is different than living on the mainland. Few people know this better than Manuel 'Manny' Cambo who, following in his father's footsteps, owns and operates Key Hardware on Key Biscayne.
Being a family owned and operated store is one thing, but Manny Cambo is also our neighbor and in times of emergency such as before or after a Hurricane, Manny would be assisting other families with preparations and make certain that Key Hardware would be the last store on the island to close its doors and the first to re-open to help others repair any of the damages. Attention to the needs of others in an island environment is what has kept Key Hardware open since the 1950s.
A little known fact is that Key Hardware is the oldest business on the island of Key Biscayne opening its doors to the swarms of families moving out to this new 'Island Paradise'. From the first day in business until today, Key Hardware has remained a family owned and operated business and has saved a generation of Key Biscayne residents the long drive into town and at the birth of this new community, a simple drive off and back on the island on a good day could take hours. A 'good day' meaning just having to wait for the drawbridge to open and close for passing sailboats. A bad day going off and returning to the island could (and did) take all day whenever the drawbridge got stuck in the upright position. The convenience of Key Hardware, along with their friendly and helpful staff helped countless individuals, contractors, and families find exactly what they needed to make simple to complex home or commercial repairs with a floor to ceiling stock of common to not so common items. Chances are, Key Hardware has what you need, yet in the rare event that they did not, Mr. Cambo's mantra lives on. "If we don't have it, we'll get it".
Recently, in order to provide the island of Key Biscayne with the very best of products available, Key Biscayne Hardware opened a Benjamin Moore paint center in store. The response has been spectacular as residents and contractors alike no longer have to leave the island to find custom colors or paints formulated for specific or commercial use.
Key Hardware designed and built its 'new' location and has been operating here at the corner of Crandon Boulevard and West Mashta Street since 2000. When it comes to one of the pioneer stores of Key Biscayne where the average resident could find "The" hardware store in their sleep, Key Hardware operating here is still affectionately called the 'new' location by many of the Key Biscayne 'old-timers'.
If you need to find Key Hardware, the street address is located at 800 Crandon Blvd Key Biscayne, FL 33149
Phone them directly at: (305) 361-2118