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Miami's main four sports teams are the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball and the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League Starting 2020 the city will be home to Inter Miami CF of the Major League Soccer led by David Beckham Simon Fuller and Marcelo Claure the Miami Open an annual tennis tournament was previously held in Key Biscayne before moving to Hard Rock Stadium after the tournament was purchased by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross in 2019 the city is home to numerous greyhound racing tracks marinas jai alai venues and golf courses the city streets have hosted professional auto races in the past most notably the open-wheel Grand Prix of Miami and the sports car Grand Prix of Miami the Homestead-Miami Speedway oval hosts NASCAR races. The founders located the campus on the site of the original Tamiami Airport (not related to the later Kendall-Tamiami Airport) on the Tamiami Trail (U.S Route 41) between Southwest 107th and 117th Avenues just east of where the West Dade Expressway (now the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike) was being planned the abandoned airport's air traffic control tower became FIU's first building it originally had no telephones no drinking water and no furniture Perry decided that the tower should never be destroyed and it remains on campus where it is now known variously as the "Veterans Office," "Ivory Tower," the "Tower Building," or the "Public Safety Tower," and is the former location of the FIU Police Department, 4.2 Rock Kissimmee River, As of the census of 2000 there were 2,253,362 people 776,774 households and 548,402 families in the county with an average population density of 1,158 inhabitants per square mile (447/km2) There were 852,278 housing units with an average density of 438 per square mile (169/km2) the county's racial makeup was 69.7% White (49% White Hispanic 20.7% Non-Hispanic White) 20.3% African American and Black (with a large part of Caribbean descent) 0.20% Native American 1.4% Asian 0.01% Pacific Islander 4.60% from other races and 3.80% from two or more races 57.3% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race in relation to ancestry (excluding the various Hispanic and Latino ancestries) 5% were Haitian 5% American 2% Italian 2% Jamaican 2% German 2% Irish and 2% English ancestry. FIU also has other smaller regional centers located throughout South Florida in both Miami-Dade County and Broward County serving the local communities in research continuing studies and in culture in Broward County there is the FIU Pines Center in Pembroke Pines opened to satisfy the demand from Broward County residents This center serves mostly night students in programs within the College of Business Administration in Miami-Dade County there are four regional FIU facilities the Downtown Miami Center the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach (Washington Avenue and 10th St) the FIU-Florida Memorial research center in Miami Gardens and a research site in Homestead, Class of 1981 The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth the few published accounts from that period describe the area as a wilderness that held much promise the area was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida" After the Great Freeze of 1894 the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived Julia Tuttle a local landowner convinced Henry Flagler a railroad tycoon to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami on July 28 1896 Miami was officially incorporated as a city with a population of just over 300, It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or more countries Transactions of economic resources include capital skills and people for the purpose of the international production of physical goods and services such as finance banking insurance and construction International business is also known as globalization. 1910 11,933 140.8% 7 Parks Country Club MacArthur Causeway Downtown and South Beach 1920 5 Statistics The Barnacle Historic State Park or the Barnacle built in 1891 is the oldest house in its original location in Miami. The following table provides descriptions of higher education in international business and its benefits. .

1 History 4.2 Statutes White or Caucasian (including White Hispanic) 72.6% 73.8% 75.0% Miami International Airport (MIA) and PortMiami are among the nation's busiest ports of entry especially for cargo from South America and the Caribbean PortMiami is the world's busiest cruise port and MIA is the busiest airport in Florida and the largest gateway between the United States and Latin America Due to its strength in international business finance and trade the city has among the largest concentration of international banks in the country primarily along Brickell Avenue in Brickell Miami's financial district Miami was the host city of the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations; . See also: Miami Drug War Crandon Park Main articles: Calusa and Tequesta 2.4.2 Growth as a global city Period Mean Maximum Minimum Main article: Miami-Dade Transit! In 1766 Samuel Touchett received a land grant from the British government of 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the Miami area the grant was surveyed by Bernard Romans in 1772 a condition for making the grant permanent was that at least one white settler had to live on the grant for every 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land While Touchett wanted to place a plantation on the grant he was having financial problems and was never able to develop it. Fort Lauderdale Gold Coast Railroad Museum Miami The Skytrain automated people mover built by Parsons and Odebrecht with trains from Sumitomo Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries opened in September 2010 it transports domestic passengers between four stations within Concourse D located at gates D17 D24 D29 and D46; it also connects arriving international passengers who have not yet cleared border customs to the Concourse D FIS. From 1952 to 1964 most voters were registered Democrats but the state voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election except for 1964 the following year Congress passed and President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 providing for oversight of state practices and enforcement of constitutional voting rights for African Americans and other minorities in order to prevent the discrimination and disenfranchisement that had excluded most of them for decades from the political process. Main article: Miami-Dade County Public Schools Major professional and D-I college teams (attendance > 10,000).