. Miami Florida Business directory In 1960 non-Hispanic whites represented 80% of Miami-Dade county's population in 1970 the Census Bureau reported Miami's population as 45.3% Hispanic 32.9% non-Hispanic White and 22.7% Black Miami's explosive population growth has been driven by internal migration from other parts of the country primarily up until the 1980s as well as by immigration primarily from the 1960s to the 1990s Today immigration to Miami has continued and Miami's growth today is attributed greatly to its fast urbanization and high-rise construction which has increased its inner city neighborhood population densities such as in Downtown Brickell and Edgewater where one area in Downtown alone saw a 2,069% increase in population in the 2010 Census Miami is regarded as more of a multicultural mosaic than it is a melting pot with residents still maintaining much of or some of their cultural traits the overall culture of Miami is heavily influenced by its large population of Hispanics from the Caribbean and South America and blacks mainly from the Caribbean islands, The following table shows the major professional and Division I college teams in the Miami area with an average attendance of more than 10,000:. In the background were the well-publicized extensions of the Florida East Coast Railway first to West Palm Beach (1894) then Miami (1896) and finally Key West 1912 the Everglades were being drained creating new dry land Finally World War I cut off the rich from their seasons on the French Riviera so a part of the U.S with a Mediterranean climate had a lot of possibilities, The Port Miami Tunnel connecting Watson Island to PortMiami on Dodge Island which cost $700 million was opened in 2014, Invertebrates: carpenter ants termites American cockroach Africanized bees the Miami blue butterfly and the grizzled mantis.
I-75 Class of 1975 & 1986 - University business professors ($75,000)*. Class of 2001 Prima Casa Montessori School Miami 399,457 362,470 Miami-Dade ??? ??O ??? ?FO The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project's final construction project was straightening the Kissimmee River a meandering 90-mile (140 km)-long river that was drained to make way for grazing land and agriculture the C&SF started building the C-38 canal in 1962 and the effects were seen almost immediately Waterfowl wading birds and fish disappeared prompting conservationists and sport fishers to demand the region be restored before the canal was finished in 1971 in general C&SF projects had been criticized for being temporary fixes that ignored future consequences costing billions of dollars with no end in sight After Governor Bob Graham initiated the Save Our Everglades campaign in 1983 the first section of the canal was backfilled in 1986 Graham announced that by 2000 the Everglades would be restored as closely as possible to its pre-drainage state the Kissimmee River Restoration project was approved by Congress in 1992 It is estimated that it will cost $578 million to convert only 22 miles (35 km) of the canal the entire project was to be complete by 2011 yet as of 2017 the project is "more than halfway complete" and the new completion date is 2020. The Miami-Dade Aviation Department(MDAD) operates Miami International Airport Miami Executive Airport Opa-locka Executive Airport Homestead General Aviation Airport and Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Restoration 1890 861 235.0% After the Civil War a state agency called the Internal Improvement Fund (IIF) whose purpose was to improve Florida's roads canals and rail lines was discovered to be deeply in debt the IIF found a Pennsylvania real estate developer named Hamilton Disston interested in implementing plans to drain the land for agriculture Disston purchased 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km2) of land for $1 million in 1881 and he began constructing canals near St Cloud at first the canals seemed to work in lowering the water levels in the wetlands surrounding the rivers They were effective in lowering the groundwater but it became apparent that their capacity was insufficient for the wet season Although Disston's canals did not drain well his purchase primed the economy of Florida it made news and attracted tourists and land buyers Within four years property values doubled and the population increased significantly! Campuses See also: List of mayors of Miami-Dade County Florida.
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