Faulty Planning In 1992 Hurricane Andrew caused more than $20 billion in damage just south of the Miami-Dade area. . . Frontier Airlines Atlanta Denver Las Vegas (resumes September 10 2019) Philadelphia Raleigh/Durham (begins November 14 2019), Tri-Rail service on the FEC line would bring Tri-Rail to Downtown's transit hub Government Center Station connecting Downtown directly to Midtown Miami/Miami Design District Upper East Side/Miami Shores North Miami North Miami Beach/Aventura Downtown Hollywood and Downtown Fort Lauderdale Currently rail commuters must transfer onto the Metrorail in Hialeah to get to Downtown Miami's Downtown Development Authority along with Miami-area politicians are actively lobbying to bring Tri-Rail to the city core. Nonstop flights to Chicago and Newark Liberty International Airport in northeast New Jersey started in late 1946 but nonstops didn't reach west beyond St Louis and New Orleans until January 1962 Nonstop transatlantic flights to Europe began in 1970 in the late 1970s and early 1980s Air Florida had a hub at MIA with a nonstop flight to London England which it acquired from National upon the latter's merger with Pan Am Air Florida ceased operations in 1982 after the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 British Airways flew a Concorde SST (supersonic transport) triserial between Miami and London via Washington D.C (Dulles International Airport) from 1984 to 1991. Total population 399,457 2,496,435 18,801,310 American Airlines Arena in Miami, By late 1975 after seven years at the helm Charles Perry felt he had accomplished his goal and left the university to become president and publisher of the Sunday newspaper magazine Family Weekly (later USA Weekend) one of the country's largest magazines When he left there were more than 10,000 students attending classes and a campus with five major buildings and a sixth being planned. 4 References In the 1980s Miami became one of the United States' largest transshipment point for cocaine from Colombia Bolivia and Peru the drug industry brought billions of dollars into Miami which were quickly funneled through front organizations into the local economy Luxury car dealerships five-star hotels condominium developments swanky nightclubs major commercial developments and other signs of prosperity began rising all over the city As the money arrived so did a violent crime wave that lasted through the early 1990s the popular television program Miami Vice which dealt with counter-narcotics agents in an idyllic upper-class rendition of Miami spread the city's image as one of America's most glamorous subtropical paradises. .
. 1988 38.5% 1,656,701 60.9% 2,618,885 Miami Florida Business directory.
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