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Forbes 459 North Florida 5 Statistics Downtown Miami is the historic heart of Miami and along with Coconut Grove is the oldest settled area of Miami with early pioneer settlement dating to the early 19th century Urban development began in the 1890s with the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway by Standard Oil industrialist Henry Flagler down to Miami at the insistence of Julia Tuttle Flagler along with developers such as William Brickell and George E Merrick helped bring developer interest to the city with the construction of hotels resorts homes and the extension of Flagler's rail line Flagler Street originating in Downtown is a major east-west road in Miami named after the tycoon; the Julia Tuttle Causeway crossing Biscayne Bay just north of Downtown in Edgewater is named in honor of Tuttle. Miami Florida Business directory Occupational Therapy 75, Main article: Media in Miami (113) 8.70 Miami Wind Symphony The first airport on the site of MIA opened in the 1920s and was known as Miami City Airport Pan American World Airways opened an expanded facility adjacent to City Airport Pan American Field in 1928 Pan American Field was built on 116 acres of land on 36th Street and was the only mainland airport in the eastern United States that had port of entry facilities Its runways were located around the threshold of today's Runway 26R Eastern Airlines began to serve Pan American Field in 1931 followed by National Airlines in 1936 National used a terminal on the opposite side of LeJeune Road from the airport and would stop traffic on the road in order to taxi aircraft to and from its terminal Miami Army Airfield opened in 1943 during the Second World War to the south of Pan American Field: the runways of the two were originally separated by railroad tracks but the two airfields were listed in some directories as a single facility Following World War II in 1945 the City of Miami established a Port Authority and raised bond revenue to purchase Pan American Field which had been since renamed 36th Street Airport from Pan Am it merged with the former Miami Army Airfield which was purchased from the United States Army Air Force south of the railroad in 1949 and expanded further in 1951 when the railroad line itself was moved south to make more room the old terminal on 36th Street was closed in 1959 when the center modern passenger terminal (since greatly expanded) opened United States Air Force Reserve troop carrier and rescue squadrons also operated from the airport from 1949 through 1959 when the last unit relocated to nearby Homestead Air Force Base (now Homestead Air Reserve Base); Downtown has over 6,000 hotel rooms in numerous hotels Downtown has Miami's largest concentration of hotel rooms and is the city's hub for business travellers Many of these hotels are geared for business travellers mostly along Brickell Avenue some for luxury leisure stays and others as bargain tourist hotels Some of Downtown's largest hotels are:, Wet prairies are slightly elevated like sawgrass marshes but with greater plant diversity the surface is covered in water only three to seven months of the year and the water is on average shallow at only 4 inches (10 cm) deep When flooded the marl can support a variety of water plants Solution holes or deep pits where the limestone has worn away may remain flooded even when the prairies are dry and they support aquatic invertebrates such as crayfish and snails and larval amphibians which feed young wading birds These regions tend to border between sloughs and sawgrass marshes. See also: Miami Drug War Miami Florida Business directory; Sea Ranch Lakes Tourism and conventions Central Terminal (Yellow) Tri-Rail fare zone boundary. Law School (day), "International business" is also defined as the study of the internationalization process of multinational enterprises a multinational enterprise (MNE) is a company that has a worldwide approach to markets production and/or operations in several countries Well-known MNEs include fast-food companies such as: McDonald's (MCD) YUM (YUM) Starbucks Coffee Company (SBUX) Microsoft (MSFT) etc Other industrial MNEs leaders include vehicle manufacturers such as: Ford Motor Company and General Motors (GMC) Some consumer electronics producers such as Samsung LG and Sony and energy companies such as Exxon Mobil and British Petroleum (BP) are also multinational enterprises, Congressional districts 1940s: World War II In 1926 the original Booker T Washington Senior High School building opened in what is now the Overtown district it was the only secondary black high school at the time in South Florida enrolling students from as far away as Broward and Palm Beach counties!

. 10 External links City 2010 population 2000 population County, White Hispanic: 39.2% [2,375,219], As of 2010 those of Asian ancestry accounted for 1.0% of Miami's population Of the city's total population 0.3% were Indian people/Indo-Caribbean American (1,206 people) 0.3% Chinese (1,804 people) 0.2% Filipino (647 people) 0.1% were other Asian (433 people) 0.1% Japanese (245 people) 0.1% Korean (213 people) and 0.0% were Vietnamese (125 people). Downtown Miami Historic District source: Manchester Business School (satellite location UK public) North Florida ? Miami has six major causeways that span over Biscayne Bay connecting the western mainland with the eastern barrier islands along the Atlantic Ocean the Rickenbacker Causeway is the southernmost causeway and connects Brickell to Virginia Key and Key Biscayne the Venetian Causeway and MacArthur Causeway connect Downtown with South Beach the Julia Tuttle Causeway connects Midtown and Miami Beach the 79th Street Causeway connects the Upper East Side with North Beach the northernmost causeway the Broad Causeway is the smallest of Miami's six causeways and connects North Miami with Bal Harbour. This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it, Virginia Key Beach Park, The Metromover is free and has three loops throughout Downtown Brickell and the Arts & Entertainment District There are Metromover stations at roughly every two blocks in the area. Wertheim Performing Arts Center (Florida International University Miami), 2000 Census 2,253,362 6.1.1 Major freeways and tollways, Jupiter Florida's universities have a number of collegiate sport programs Major college football programs include the Florida State Seminoles and Miami Hurricanes of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference Since 1996 Florida has added four additional programs to the ranks of Division I FCS: UCF Knights South Florida Bulls Florida Atlantic Owls and FIU Panthers.