Contents Miami Florida Business directory Water characteristics As of 2009 there are approximately 71,000 year-round residents in Greater Downtown (including Downtown's Brickell Park West and Arts & Entertainment District neighborhoods) with close to 200,000 populating the Downtown area during the daytime making Downtown Miami one of the most populous downtowns in the U.S after New York City and Chicago With recent mass construction of high-rise residential buildings and office towers Downtown has experienced large growth with new shops bars parks and restaurants opening up attracting many new residents Along with Brickell Downtown has grown from 40,000 residents in 2000 to over 70,000 in 2009 making it one of the fastest-growing areas in Florida it was estimated in February 2010 that about 550 new residents move to the Downtown area every month as of 2009 over 190,000 office employees work in Downtown and Brickell! . Main article: Government of Florida Aviation department Miami Florida Business directory. As of the 2005 American Community Survey 5,334,685 people lived in the metropolis, 2013 Inaugural Poet and Award-Winning Author, Initially most residents wanted to name the city "Flagler" However Henry Flagler was adamant that the new city would not be named after him So on July 28 1896 the City of Miami named after the Miami River was incorporated with 502 voters including 100 registered black voters the blacks provided the primary labor force for the building of Miami.[citation needed] Clauses in land deeds confined blacks to the northwest section of Miami which became known as "Colored Town" (today's Overtown). Miami Florida Business directory Miami Florida Business directory Steven J Green School of International and Public Affairs. The previous headquarters One Herald Plaza were located on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) plot in Biscayne Bay Miami This facility opened in March 1963 in 2011 the Genting Group a Malaysian company offered to pay the Miami Herald Media Company $236 million for the current headquarters property the company began scouting for a new headquarters location after finalizing the sale the then president and publisher of the media company David Landsberg stated that it was not necessary at that point to be located in the city center and remaining there would be too expensive the newspaper moved to its current Doral headquarters in May 2013 on April 28 2014 demolition began on the building on Biscayne Bay between the MacArthur and Venetian causeways, After learning of the verdict of the McDuffie case one of the worst riots in the history of the United States,[citation needed] the Liberty City Riots of 1980 broke out By the time the rioting ceased three days later over 850 people had been arrested and at least 18 people had died Property damage was estimated at around one hundred million dollars. Calle Ocho Atlantic World Several archaeological sites are known from the area occupied by the Mayaimi including Fort Center Belle Glade Big Mound City the Boynton Mounds complex and Tony's Mound, 2 Academics 2.2 Post-war history Week of Welcome usually held the first or second week of the Fall semester holds many spirit events such as Trail of the Torch Trail of the Torch is another university tradition that has continued to grow annually where a pep rally is held in the Housing Quad with music food giveaways and dancing After the pep rally the torch of knowledge is lit and blue and gold candles are distributed to the crowd for the procession around the campus trailing the torch from the Housing Quad to the torch in front of the Primera Casa building Rage Week and Homecoming Week are other major back-to-back spirit weeks held in the Fall semester They include the Homecoming Parade Greek Row parties Homecoming football game Blue/Gold Party pep rallies and other Panther Rage events.
. In 2018 45,044,312 passengers traveled through the airport making it the 13th busiest airport in the United States and 40th busiest in the world by total passenger traffic It is the 3rd busiest airport in the United States by international passenger traffic MIA is Florida's busiest airport by total aircraft operations and total cargo traffic and its second busiest by total passenger traffic after Orlando International Airport, Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30 although hurricanes can develop outside that period the most likely time for South Florida to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season mid-August through the end of September Due to its location between two major bodies of water known for tropical activity South Florida is also statistically the most likely major area to be struck by a hurricane in the world trailed closely by Nassau Bahamas and Havana Cuba Many hurricanes have affected the metropolis including Betsy in 1965 Andrew in 1992 Irene in 1999 Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005 and Irma in 2017 in addition a tropical depression in October 2000 passed over the city causing record rainfall and flooding Locally the storm is credited as the No Name Storm of 2000 though the depression went on to become Tropical Storm Leslie upon entering the Atlantic Ocean. . Class of 1991 Downtown skyline circa 1930s with the Florida East Coast Railway passenger train station and the Dade County Courthouse in the foreground. Miami Florida Business directory There are four major projects related to PortMiami which are all scheduled to be ready by 2014: the expansion of the Panama Canal the PortMiami Deep Dredge Project the PortMiami Tunnel and the restoration of the bridge and rail line connecting the PortMiami to the mainland.
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