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Bal Harbour, Florida
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Bal Harbour is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,513 at the 2010 US Census, since the 1920s, the Detroit-based Miami Beach Heights Corporation – headed by industrialists Robert C. Graham, Walter O. Briggs, and Carl G. Fisher – owned 245 acres of undeveloped, Mr. Graham assumed the duties as the developer for Bal Harbour. In the 1930s, city planners Harland Bartholomew & Associates were called in to design the Village, the company made several plans and they were submitted to the Miami Beach Heights for review. The original name chosen for Bal Harbour was Bay Harbour, however, the planning committee didnt think that was appropriate for a city that was on the beach. A name was invented to encompass a village that ran from the bay to the Atlantic Ocean, the b was taken from the word bay and the a and l were taken from the name Atlantic. Hence the word Bal was created, in 1940, World War II began and the plans were put on hold. As a goodwill gesture to the government, Robert C, Graham rented the land to the United States Air Corps for $1 per year. The Air Corps used this land to train their soldiers and established a Prisoner of War camp, the ocean front area was used as a rifle range and the barracks were set up on the west side of Collins Avenue. The camp for prisoners was located where the Bal Harbour Shops are presently, in 1945, the war was over in both Germany and Japan. The Air Corps left the buildings as a thank you to the owners of the property. These barracks were converted into apartment homes by Mr. Graham in 1946, in order to incorporate a city in 1946, there had to be at least 25 male registered voters residing in the area. Mr. Graham had twenty five families move into the apartment homes that he had converted in order to qualify the Village for incorporation and he then hired Willard Webb, a Miami Beach tax assessor, to draft a charter for the Village. After the charter was completed, the Village of Bal Harbour was incorporated on August 14,1946, the Village was operated under the city manager form of government. The Council established a fire department. Swampland was filled, sea walls were constructed and the basin was created. Contracts were signed for the systems, water pumping stations. Bal Harbour was the first planned community in Florida to have its utilities placed underground, developers set guidelines for the development of the beachfront and the residential areas
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Florida
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Florida /ˈflɒrᵻdə/ is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U. S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States, the Miami metropolitan area is Floridas most populous urban area. The city of Tallahassee is the state capital, much of the state is at or near sea level and is characterized by sedimentary soil. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south, the American alligator, American crocodile, Florida panther, and manatee can be found in the Everglades National Park. It was a location of the Seminole Wars against the Native Americans. Today, Florida is distinctive for its large Cuban expatriate community and high population growth, the states economy relies mainly on tourism, agriculture, and transportation, which developed in the late 19th century. Florida is also renowned for amusement parks, orange crops, the Kennedy Space Center, Florida has attracted many writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, and continues to attract celebrities and athletes. It is internationally known for golf, tennis, auto racing, by the 16th century, the earliest time for which there is a historical record, major Native American groups included the Apalachee, the Timucua, the Ais, the Tocobaga, the Calusa and the Tequesta. Florida was the first part of the continental United States to be visited and settled by Europeans, the earliest known European explorers came with the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. Ponce de León spotted and landed on the peninsula on April 2,1513 and he named the region La Florida. The story that he was searching for the Fountain of Youth is a myth, in May 1539, Conquistador Hernando de Soto skirted the coast of Florida, searching for a deep harbor to land. He described seeing a wall of red mangroves spread mile after mile, some reaching as high as 70 feet. Very soon, many smokes appeared along the whole coast, billowing against the sky, the Spanish introduced Christianity, cattle, horses, sheep, the Spanish language, and more to Florida. Both the Spanish and French established settlements in Florida, with varying degrees of success, in 1559, Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a settlement at present-day Pensacola, making it the first attempted settlement in Florida, but it was abandoned by 1561. Spain maintained tenuous control over the region by converting the tribes to Christianity. The area of Spanish Florida diminished with the establishment of English settlements to the north, the English attacked St. Augustine, burning the city and its cathedral to the ground several times. Florida attracted numerous Africans and African-Americans from adjacent British colonies who sought freedom from slavery, in 1738, Governor Manuel de Montiano established Fort Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose near St
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Collins Avenue
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Collins Avenue, partly co-signed State Road A1A, runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean in Miami Beach, Florida, one block west. Collins Avenue was named for John S. Collins a developer who in 1913 completed the first bridge, Collins Bridge, Collins Avenue is home to many historic Art Deco hotels, and several nightclubs to the north. The annual Miami International Boat Show occurs on Collins Avenue, Kleinberg, Howard, Woggles and cheese holes, the story of Miami Beach hotels, Miami Beach, FL, Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association,2005. ISBN 0-9771340-0-8 Kleinberg, Howard, Miami Beach, a history, Miami, FL, the making of Miami Beach, 1933-1942, the architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon, Miami, Bass Museum of Art,2000
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Anchor store
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In retail, an anchor store, draw tenant, anchor tenant, or key tenant is one of the larger stores in a shopping mall, usually a department store or a major retail chain. Current examples of common anchor stores in the USA include Younkers, Macys, Kohls, Sears, Bergners, Dillards, Carsons, Boscovs, The Bon-Ton, Bloomingdales, Lord & Taylor, and JCPenney. Defunct examples include Montgomery Ward, Mervyns, Eatons, Lazarus, Galyans, Foleys, Marshall Fields, Hechts, Sports Authority, Parisian, anchors generally have their rents heavily discounted, and may even receive cash inducements from the mall to remain open. The regional center typically has two or more anchors, while the superregional typically has three or more, in each case, the anchors account for 50-70% of the malls leasable space. Malls with anchor stores have consistently outperformed those without one, as the anchor helps draw shoppers initially attracted to the anchor to shop at stores in the mall. Early on, grocery stores were a type of anchor store. However, research on consumer behavior revealed that most trips to the store did not result in visits to surrounding shops. Large supermarkets remain common anchor stores within power centers however, the challenges faced by the traditional large department stores have led to a resurgence in the use of supermarkets as anchors
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Shopping mall
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A shopping arcade is a specific form serving the same purpose. Many early shopping arcades such as the Burlington Arcade in London, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, however, many smaller arcades have been demolished, replaced with large centers or malls, often accessible by vehicle. Technical innovations such as lighting and escalators were introduced from the late 19th century. From the late 20th century, entertainment venues such as movie theaters, as a single built structure, early shopping centers were often architecturally significant constructions, enabling wealthier patrons to buy goods in spaces protected from the weather. In places around the world, the shopping centre is used, especially in Europe, Australia. Mall is a term used predominantly in North America, outside of North America, shopping precinct and shopping arcade are also used. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, malls are commonly referred to as shopping centres, the majority of British shopping centres are located in city centres, usually found in old and historic shopping districts and surrounded by subsidiary open air shopping streets. Large examples include West Quay in Southampton, Manchester Arndale, Bullring Birmingham, Liverpool One, Trinity Leeds, Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow and these centres were built in the 1980s and 1990s, but planning regulations prohibit the construction of any more. Out-of-town shopping developments in the UK are now focused on retail parks, planning policy prioritizes the development of existing town centres, although with patchy success. Bullring, Birmingham is the busiest shopping centre in the UK welcoming over 36.5 million shoppers in its opening year, there are a reported 222 malls in Europe. In 2014, these malls had combined sales of $12.47 billion and this represented a 10% bump in revenues from the prior year. One of the earliest examples of public shopping areas comes from ancient Rome, One of the earliest public shopping centers is Trajans Market in Rome located in Trajans Forum. Trajans Market was probably built around 100-110 CE by Apollodorus of Damascus, the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul was built in the 15th century and is still one of the largest covered shopping centers in the world, with more than 58 streets and 4,000 shops. Numerous other covered shopping arcades, such as the 19th-century Al-Hamidiyah Souq in Damascus, Syria, isfahans Grand Bazaar, which is largely covered, dates from the 10th century. The 10-kilometer-long, covered Tehrans Grand Bazaar also has a lengthy history, the oldest continuously occupied shopping mall in the world is likely to be the Chester Rows. Dating back at least to the 13th century, these covered walkways housed shops, with storage, different rows specialized in different goods, such as Bakers Row or Fleshmongers Row. The Marché des Enfants Rouges in Paris opened in 1628 and still runs today, the Oxford Covered Market in Oxford, England opened in 1774 and still runs today. The Passage du Caire was opened in Paris in 1798, the Burlington Arcade in London was opened in 1819
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Miami Beach, Florida
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Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26,1915, the municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami, as of the 2010 census, Miami Beach had a total population of 87,779. It has been one of Americas pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century, in 1979, Miami Beachs Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments, mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The Historic District is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East, Lenox Court on the West, 6th Street on the South and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the North. The movement to preserve the Art Deco Districts architectural heritage was led by interior designer Barbara Capitman. Miami Beach is governed by a mayor and six commissioners. Although the mayor runs commission meetings, the mayor and all commissioners have equal voting power and are elected by popular election. The mayor serves for terms of two years with a limit of three terms and commissioners serve for terms of four years and are limited to two terms. Commissioners are voted for citywide and every two years three commission seats are voted upon, a city manager is responsible for administering governmental operations. An appointed city manager is responsible for administration of the city, the City Clerk and the City Attorney are also appointed officials. In 1870, a father and son, Henry and Charles Lum, the first structure to be built on this uninhabited oceanfront was the Biscayne House of Refuge, constructed in 1876 by the United States Life-Saving Service at approximately 72nd Street. Its purpose was to provide food, water, and a return to civilization for people who were shipwrecked, Collins family members saw the potential in developing the beach as a resort. This effort got underway in the years of the 20th century by the Collins/Pancoast family, the Lummus brothers. Until then, the beach here was only the destination for day-trips by ferry from Miami, there were bath houses and food stands, but no hotel until Browns Hotel was built in 1915. Much of the land mass at that time was a tangled jungle of mangroves. Clearing it, deepening the channels and water bodies, and eliminating native growth almost everywhere in favor of landfill for development, was expensive
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Brickell City Centre
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Brickell City Centre is a $1.05 billion shopping and mixed-use project in Miami, Florida. When finished, it will span up to five blocks to the west of Brickell Avenue and to the south of the Miami River and it will be anchored by a 107,000 square-foot Saks Fifth Avenue, Cinemex, and Italian food hall. The project is located between 7th and 8th Streets on both sides of South Miami Avenue and east of South Miami Ave on the side of 7th Street. Additionally, it may expand to two more blocks that Swire already owns at 700 Brickell Avenue and SE6 Street. The large project was first proposed during the real estate bubble of the 2000s and it was revived in 2012 with enough acreage to qualify for Special Area Plan zoning with construction beginning by years end. The hotel and residential towers, as well as office space. Phased retail openings started in November 2016, a phase two may begin construction in 2017. Contrary to the name, the development is not in the traditional downtown Miami city centre, the project is being developed by Swire Properties Inc, and spans slightly over 9 acres. Amenities include a soon to open department store Saks Fifth Avenue, luxury shops, restaurants, hotel, office towers, the hotel flag was awarded to EAST, a Swire Hotels brand, which will be their first venture in North America. Currently there are EAST hotels in Hong Kong and Beijing, China, in February 2013, Swire Properties and the owners of Bal Harbour Shops announced that they had come to an agreement to co-develop the retail portion of the development. Later, in 2015, mall developer Simon Property Group also became a retail partner, limited portions of the project opened at the end of 2015, while the residential towers began occupancy in mid-2016. The retail section opened at the beginning of November 2016 with a ribbon cutting. The Eighth Street Metromover station reopened in late 2015, though the third connection to the retail component remained locked until December 2016. The project has been a catalyst for development in the trendy Brickell neighborhood, in the direct vicinity of the project, many luxury hi-rise buildings are under construction as of 2017. Arquitectonica remains as the architect and ArquitectonicaGEO as the landscape architect, two additional lots were purchased by Swire in 2011, the Brickell Tennis Club and the Eastern National Bank building making the entire development site over 9 acres. The project also contains two levels of parking, covered sidewalks, and interconnectivity between all the buildings. Underground parking in South Florida is a rarity due to the low elevation above sea level, the 2,600 sub-grade car park for Brickell City Centre covers 7 acres, and required installation of watertight slurry walls from the site elevation of 7 feet NGVD to around -20 feet. The City Commission gave the project its approval in July 2011
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Miami metropolitan area
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The Miami metropolitan area, also known as the Greater Miami Area or South Florida, is the 67th largest metropolitan area in the world and the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. It is entirely located in the portion of the U. S. State of Florida. Its land area is 6,137 sq. mi, the three counties together have principal cities including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, West Palm Beach, and Boca Raton. Besides its association with the South Florida region, is also synonymous with an area known collectively as the Gold Coast. This includes the four counties of Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River. The Miami metropolitan statistical area is longer than any other urbanized area in the United States except for the New York metropolitan area and it was the eighth most densely populated urbanized area in the United States in the 2000 census. As of the 2000 census, the area had a land area of 1,116 square miles, with a population of 4,919,036. Miami and Hialeah had population densities of more than 10,000 per square mile, the Miami Urbanized Area was the fourth largest urbanized area in the United States in the 2010 census. The Miami metropolitan area includes several urban clusters as of the 2000 Census which are not part of the Miami Urbanized Area. The following is a list of the twenty largest cities in the Miami metropolitan area as ranked by population, the Miami area is a very diverse community with a large proportion of foreign-born residents, in large part due to its proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean. Another large factor are residents who were former snowbirds from the Northeast and, to a lesser extent, politically speaking, the region is heavily Democratic. Broward County is the second most reliably Democratic county in the state, as of the 2005 American Community Survey,5,334,685 people lived in the metropolis. The Miami area has a very large Jewish community,10. 2% of the population was Jewish in the 2000 Census, There is also a sizable Muslim community numbering at 70,000. Population, As of the 2010 U. S. Census,2.8 million were females and 2.6 million were males. The median age was 38.6 years, 24% of the population were under 18 years and 15% were 65 years and older. There were 2,097,626 households, and 1,378,108 families residing in the Miami metropolitan area, among people at least five years old living in the region in 2005, 52% spoke English at home while 48% spoke some other language at home. Of those speaking a language other than English at home, 78% spoke Spanish, households and families, There were 2,338,450 households, The average household size was 2.6 people. Families made up 65% of the households in the Miami area and this figure includes both married-couple families and other families
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Miami
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Miami is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U. S. state of Florida and its Atlantic coast. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, Miamis metro area is the eighth-most populous, Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Groups inventory, in 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors. It ranked 33rd among global cities, in 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami Americas Cleanest City, for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and citywide recycling programs. According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, Miami is nicknamed the Capital of Latin America and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. Miami has the third tallest skyline in the U. S. with over 300 high-rises, Downtown Miami is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and many large national and international companies. The Civic Center is a center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers. For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the Cruise Capital of the World, has been the number one cruise port in the world. It accommodates some of the worlds largest cruise ships and operations, Metropolitan Miami is the major tourism hub in the American South, number two in the U. S. after New York City and number 13 in the world, including the popular destination of Miami Beach. The Miami area was inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous Native American tribes, the Tequestas occupied the area for a thousand years before encountering Europeans. An Indian village of hundreds of people dating to 500–600 B. C. was located at the mouth of the Miami River, in 1566 the explorer, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, claimed it for Spain. A Spanish mission was constructed one year later in 1567, Spain and Great Britain successively controlled Florida, and Spain ceded it to the United States in 1821. In 1836, the US built Fort Dallas as part of its development of the Florida Territory and attempt to suppress, the Miami area subsequently became a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. Miami is noted as the major city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle, a local citrus grower. The Miami area was known as Biscayne Bay Country in the early years of its growth. In the late 19th century, reports described the area as a promising wilderness, the area was also characterized as one of the finest building sites in Florida. The Great Freeze of 1894–95 hastened Miamis growth, as the crops of the Miami area were the ones in Florida that survived. Julia Tuttle subsequently convinced Henry Flagler, a tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to the region
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Fort Lauderdale /ˌfɔərt ˈlɔːdərdeɪl/ is a city in the U. S. state of Florida,28 miles north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County, as of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average temperature of 75.5 °F and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, the district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012, greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants,63 golf courses,12 shopping malls,16 museums,132 nightclubs,278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts. Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War, the forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale, younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort, however, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century. The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the New River Settlement before the 20th century, in the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6,1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children. The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, the fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County, Fort Lauderdales first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob, a group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery
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West Palm Beach, Florida
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West Palm Beach is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is one of the three cities in South Florida. The population was 100,343 at the 2010 census, the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research estimates a 2016 population of 108,896, a 7. 9% increase from 2010. It is the oldest municipality in the Miami metropolitan area, having incorporated as a city two years before Miami in November 1894. The estimated population of the Miami Metropolitan area, which all of Palm Beach County, was 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. The beginning of the period in south Florida is marked by Juan Ponce de Leóns first contact with native people in 1513. When the Spanish arrived, there were perhaps about 20,000 Native Americans in south Florida, by 1763, when the English gained control of Florida, the native peoples had all but been wiped out through war, enslavement, or European diseases. Other native peoples from Alabama and Georgia moved into Florida in the early 18th century and they were of varied ancestry, but Europeans called them all Creeks. In Florida, they were known as the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians, the Seminoles clashed with American settlers over land and over escaped slaves who found refuge among them. They resisted the efforts to move them to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. Between 1818 and 1858, three wars were fought between Seminoles and the United States government, by 1858, there were very few Seminoles remaining in Florida. The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity Lake Worth Country and these settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U. S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach, the area at this time also boasted a hotel, the Cocoanut House, a church, and a post office. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a sum of $45,000 for the original town site. On November 5,1894,78 people met at the Calaboose and this made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, in 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition
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Greater Downtown Miami
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Downtown Miami is an urban city center, based around the Central Business District of Miami, Florida, United States. In addition to the business district, the area also consists of the Brickell Financial District, Historic District, Government Center, Omni. The neighborhood is divided by the Miami River and is bordered by Midtown to the north, Biscayne Bay to the east, Civic Center and Overtown to the west, Brickell Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard are the main north-south roads, and Flagler Street is the main east-west road. Locally known as Downtown, the area is a cultural, financial, greater Downtown is home to many major museums, parks, education centers, banks, company headquarters, courthouses, government offices, theaters, shops and many of the oldest buildings in the city. Downtown Miami is the heart of Miami, and along with Coconut Grove, is the oldest settled area of Miami. 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, after New York City and Chicago. Along with Brickell, Downtown has grown from 40,000 residents in 2000, to over 70,000 in 2009 and 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, Downtown is served by the Miami Metrorail at Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre, Government Center, and Brickell stations, accessible from Broward and Palm Beach counties via Tri-Rail transfer station. The Metro connects to the Downtown Metromover, which encompasses 22 stations on the clockwise Inner loop and counterclockwise Brickell, Government Center station is Downtowns main station and allows for transfers to all Metromover loops, Metrorail trains, and Metrobus lines at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center. Downtown Miami is centered on the Central business district, best known by local Miamians as simply Downtown, Downtown is bound by NE 6th St to the north, Biscayne Bay to the east, the Miami River to the west and south. Miami Historic District and Government Center are also located within the CBD, Downtown is directly served by the Miami Metrorail at, Government Center Station, and by 13 Metromover stations on the Downtown, Brickell, and Omni Loops. Brickell is south of the Miami River, and is a mixed upper-class residential neighborhood as well as Miamis major financial district along Brickell Avenue, the Shops at Mary Brickell Village and Simpson Park are located within Brickell. Brickell is directly served by the Miami Metrorail at, Brickell Station, Omni is an urban neighborhood with numerous hotels, and high-rise residential buildings. The neighborhoods name comes from the Omni International Mall on Biscayne Boulevard, Omni borders Biscayne Bay the east, NE 2nd Ave to the west, NE 21st St to the north and I-395 to the south. Pace Park, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Omni is served by the Miami Metrorail at, Government Center Station, and by two Metromover stations on the Omni Loop. Park West is directly served by the Miami Metrorail at, Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Station, the Miami Jewelry District is a sub-neighborhood of Downtown within the Central Business District historically known for its numerous jewelry stores, jewelers and gem dealers. It is where a variety of jeweled products are sold and is one of the three districts in the United States. The Jewelry District can be accessed by public transportation through the Metromover, as of 2010, the population of Downtown Miami was 65,696 people, with a population density of 27,487 per square mile
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Brickell
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Brickell is an urban neighborhood of Greater Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. Directly south of the historic CBD, Brickell is Miami and South Floridas major financial district, by the 1970s, office towers, hotels and apartments began replacing the historic mansions. Today, Brickell has grown to overtake the citys central business district to the north. With a fast-growing residential population, Brickell is one of Miamis fastest-growing as well as its most dense neighborhood, Brickell has a large concentration of wealthy Argentine, Colombian, Cuban, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan residents. Many work in the financial and trade sectors, or live in Brickell part-time. The neighborhood of Brickell has its own newspaper, The Brickell Tribune, Brickell is a dense, high-rise residential neighborhood with many upscale, luxury condominium and apartment towers. Brickell Avenue, Brickells main north-south avenue and along Miami Avenue, home to many popular Miami restaurants, shops, a few hundred feet east of the northeastern side of Brickell is Brickell Key, a gated island of upscale, high-rise residential and hotel towers. As of 2009, over 190,000 office employees work in greater Downtown, today, greater Downtown Miami is one of the fastest-growing neighborhoods in Miami, booming from 40,000 residents in 2000 to 80,000 in 2010. Brickell is served by the Miami Metrorail at the Brickell station, as South Floridas financial district, Brickell is the core of Miamis banking, investment, and financial sectors. Brickell lies south of the Miami River, extending south to SW 26th Road, and is mostly mixed financial and residential north of Broadway, Brickell is home to 31,759 year-round residents. The area of Brickell south of Broadway is mainly low and mid-rise residential buildings west of Brickell Avenue and high-rise residential to the east of Brickell Avenue. Recent construction in Brickell has also enlarged the urban core of Brickell from Brickell Avenue west to the Metrorail line, with new office and residential towers, such as Axis at Brickell Village. As of 2010,80,000 residents live in Brickell, among them, famous celebrities such as José José, Luis Miguel, Clinton Portis, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. At the center of Brickell is Mary Brickell Village, with an assortment of restaurants, boutiques, services that create an area for high-class retail. Some the best and most well-known names are leasing space in the project, the project is designed after a French style village and attracts social gathering and entertainment. To the north of Brickell is Downtown, with most of the public elementary schools. Downtown is also home to the Miami Main Library, as well as parks, theatres, museums. South of Brickell is Coconut Grove, with Mercy Hospital, CocoWalk, Dinner Key, Villa Vizcaya, as well as historic sites
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Central Business District (Miami)
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Central Business District is the historic city center of what has become Greater Downtown Miami, in Miami, Florida, United States. It is generally bound by Biscayne Boulevard, Bayfront Park and Museum Park on the east, the Miami River to the south, North 6th Street to the north and it is also distinct from the financial district, which in this case is neighboring Brickell to the south. However, the core has over 5,000,000 square feet of office space. The City of Miami was officially incorporated as a city on July 28,1896 with a population of just over 300. Downtown is the heart of Miami, and along with Coconut Grove, is the oldest settled area of Miami. 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. Wolfson Campus, the campus of Miami-Dade College is located in the CBD, with about ten buildings around NE5 Street. The project was publicized in 2014 and has faced several delays, the Metromover Inner Loop is located entirely within the CBD, as is Metrorails Government Center station, where the rapid transit and people mover systems meet. This is the busiest station for both systems and sees over 15,000 riders on an average weekday and it is located on the west side of downtown in the Government Center area, which has a large concentration of city, county, state, and federal offices. The area is heavily served by the Metrobus and Miami Trolley, as well as taxis ridesharing and carsharing services such as Uber. Downtown Miami as defined by Walk Score which includes Brickell and Omni, is considered very walkable and as having world-class public transportation, Downtown Miami Historic District List of tallest buildings in Miami Miami Downtown Development Authority Posts Tagged ‘central business district’ from The Real Deal
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Downtown Miami Historic District
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The Downtown Miami Historic District is a U. S. historic district located in the CBD of Downtown Miami, Florida. The district is bounded by Miami Court, North Third Street, West Third Avenue, a large portion the buildings in the historic district were built during the Florida land boom of the 1920s, when Miami experienced rapid population growth. Many of the structures from before the 1920s, were smaller scale buildings and homes from the Miami pioneer era of the mid. Palm Cottage, built in 1897 is a home from the era that is still standing, however
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Government Center (Miami)
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Government Center is a district in Downtown Miami, Florida. The area includes several courthouses, including the historic Miami-Dade County Courthouse and a US district court, the City of Miami police headquarters, city, county, and state offices. The eponymous and most used county transit station, Government Center, serving Metrorail, Metromover, directly south of this is the main branch of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, as well as the HistoryMiami museum. Henry Flaglers Florida East Coast Railroad owns roughly nine acres in the middle of Government Center, the site of its former Miami station, which spans several blocks. While the station was destroyed in 1963 and the site had been used as parking lots in the decades following. In mid 2014, the lots were closed down for construction of a new Downtown Miami intercity rail station, besides governmental office and public buildings, there are many street level retail shops and some private office space in Government Center. The New World School of the Arts is located on the east side of Government Center, additionally, there is much historic architecture dating as far back as the late 19th century in Government Center, which overlaps largely with the Downtown Miami Historic District. Stephen P. Clark Government Center Government Center Courthouse Center Courthouse Tower Miami-Dade County Courthouse Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr US Courthouse David W
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Park West (Miami)
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Park West is a neighborhood of Greater Downtown, Miami, Florida, United States. It is roughly bound by Biscayne Boulevard to the east, Northwest First Avenue to the west, Northeast 7th Street to the south, as of 2010, about 4,655 residents live in Park West. The neighborhood is named Park West due to its location just west of Museum Park, plans for an enclosed Mall at Miami WorldCenter anchored by Bloomingdales and Macys, have been replaced in favor of an open air promenade shopping district. Demolition of buildings making up the club row began in 2015 clearing the way for construction to begin
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Omni (Miami)
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The Omni, or sometimes labeled as the Media and Entertainment District, is a neighborhood of greater Downtown, Miami, Florida, United States, just south of Edgewater. It is bound roughly by North 24th Street to the north, Interstate 395 to the south, by the Florida East Coast Railway and North East 2nd Avenue to the west, and Biscayne Bay to the east. Omni is an urban, residential neighborhood with many residential towers. Omni is home to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the old Miami Herald headquarters, until 2014 it was one of the neighborhoods that hosted the annual Miami International Boat Show at the Sea Isle Marina. The City of Miami Cemetery, one of Miamis oldest cemeteries, is located in Omni, as well as the historic Womens Club. Omni is served by the Omni Loop branch of the Metromover, the area from NE 13th to NE 16th Street was envisioned as a high-end shopping district. By 1930, early tenants in the Shrine Building included the Piggly-Wiggly grocery store, Biscayne-Page Electric Company, other tenants in 1930 were the Home Drug Store and the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. In 1977, the Omni International Mall opened replacing much of the stores with a suburban-style shopping mall. The mall brought many upscale stores to the Omni such as Emilio Pucci, Givenchy, by the 1990s, however, the mall began to falter, and in 1991, Jordan Marsh closed, and in 1998, so did JC Penney. In 2000, the closed, and the area was reconverted into offices in 2007. Today, it houses a few office tenants and the Miami International University of Art and it is also the corporate home of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. The name of the neighborhood today, comes from the name of the Omni Mall, in the 2000s, rapid construction of high-rise residential skyscrapers has revitalized the neighborhood from urban blight. The area around Margaret Pace Park has seen population growth from 2000 to 2010. Omni today has a residential population, and with continued retail. The Metromover connects with Metrorail and is free, there are two Metromover stations in Omni- School Board Station and Adrienne Arsht Center. Transfers can be made to the Metrorail, Miamis heavy rail system, at Government Center, as well as to the Brickell, Metrorail has stops throughout Miami with connections to Miami International Airport, all Miami-Dade County bus lines, Tri-Rail and Amtrak. The main bus station is located in Omni, next to the Arsht Center at the Adrienne Arsht Center station. Many Omni residents get around by foot, bicycle, Metromover or by taxi, bike lanes and bike sharrows are currently planned for the majority of Downtown streets to be painted by the end of 2010
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Aventura, Florida
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Aventura is a planned, suburban city located in northeastern Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The name predates the well known mall built near the condominium developments, according to the U. S. Census estimates of 2010, the city had a population of 35,762. Aventura is located 18 miles north of the city of Miami, Aventura began its development during the early 1970s. The area was referred to as Turnberry. Aventura became a city in 1995. The Aventura Police Department was formed in 1997, the Aventura Mall, the fifth-largest shopping mall in the US, is also located here. In early 2001, Former President Bill Clinton delivered one of his first speeches after leaving the White House at Aventura-Turnberry Jewish Center, Aventura has its own newspaper, Aventura News, which is published weekly and is part of the Miami Community Newspapers, The Voice of the Community. Aventura is served by the Miami–Ft, lauderdale market for local radio and television. The city has a magazine named Aventura Magazine and is served by The Miami Herald, Aventura is located at 25°57′52″N 80°08′09″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 3.5 square miles. Of that,2.7 sq mi is land and 0.8 sq mi of it is water, the city sees most of its rain in the summer and is mainly dry in winter. The hurricane season largely coincides with the wet season, in addition to its sea-level elevation, coastal location and position just north of the Tropic of Cancer, the area owes its warm, humid climate to the Gulf Stream, which moderates climate year-round. A typical summer day does not see temperatures below 75 °F, during winter, humidity is significantly lower, allowing for cooler weather to develop. Average minimum temperatures during that time are around 59 °F, rarely dipping below 40 °F, Hurricane season begins June 1 and is officially over November 30. Aventura was severely hit by Hurricane Wilma on October 24,2005 and was undergoing recovery as of November 2011. The library was decimated and still yet to be rebuilt, terraces flew off of high-rises and condos on high floors were flooded with many of their walls exploding into next-door apartments and adjacent hallways. Countless high-rise windows exploded and electricity stopped, in 2010, there were 26,120 households out of which 31. 5% were vacant. As of 2000,11. 3% had children under the age of 18 living with them,39. 6% were married couples living together,6. 2% had a householder with no husband present
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Coconut Grove
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Coconut Grove is the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The neighborhood is bound by North Prospect Drive to the south, LeJeune Road to the west, South Dixie Highway and Rickenbacker Causeway to the north. It is south of the neighborhoods of Brickell and The Roads, the neighborhoods name has been sometimes spelled Cocoanut Grove but the definitive spelling Coconut Grove was established when the city was incorporated in 1919. What is today referred to as Coconut Grove was formed in 1925 when the city of Miami annexed two areas of equal size, the city of Coconut Grove and most of the town of Silver Bluff. Coconut Grove approximately corresponds to the area as the 33133 ZIP Code although the ZIP Code includes parts of Coral Way and Coral Gables. The area is referred to as The Grove and many locals take pride that Coconut Grove is one of the greenest areas of Miami. Coconut Grove is directly served by the Miami Metrorail at Coconut Grove, several waves of immigration established Coconut Grove, the first in 1825, when the Cape Florida lighthouse went into operation and was manned by John Dubose. Dr. Horace P. Porter is credited for coming up with the name when in 1873 he rented a home from Edmond D. Beasley’s widow and he lived there for only a year but during that time he established a post office which he named Coconut Grove. Around the same time the area saw an influx of Americans from the Northeastern US, as well as British, the first hotel on the South Florida mainland was located in Coconut Grove. Coconut Groves first black settlement, in the 1880s, was established by Bahamian laborers who worked at the Peacock Inn, the Barnacle Historic State Park is the oldest house in Miami-Dade County still standing in its original location. Formerly an independent city, Coconut Grove was annexed by the city of Miami in 1925, in the 1960s, bay-shore Coconut Grove served as the center of South Floridas youth countercultural movement, notably hosting several love-ins and concerts during the latter part of the decade. Coconut Grove has a number of festivals and events, the most prominent of which is the annual Coconut Grove Arts Festival. Others include the King Mango Strut, which began as a parody of the Orange Bowl Parade, the Great Taste of the Grove Food & Wine Festival takes place each April. Each June, the Goombay Festival transforms Grand Avenue in Coconut Grove into a Carnaval, celebrating Bahamian culture, with Bahamian food, the Grove has numerous restaurants, open air and streetside cafes, and several waterfront restaurants and bars. By night, the Grove becomes a center of nightlife frequented by locals, young professionals, students from the-nearby University of Miami and Florida International University, and tourists. Shopping is abundant in the Grove, with two malls, CocoWalk, the Streets of Mayfair, and many other street shops. Development and redevelopment continue to redefine and transform the area, major corporations including Arquitectonica, Spanish Broadcasting System, and Watsco are located in the Grove. The eastern border of Coconut Grove is Biscayne Bay, which lends itself to the boating and sailing communities
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Coral Gables, Florida
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Coral Gables, officially the City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located southwest of Downtown Miami. The United States Census Bureau estimates conducted in 2013 yielded the city had a population of 49,631, Coral Gables is home to the University of Miami. The city of Coral Gables has its own newspaper, Coral Gables News, Coral Gables was one of the first planned communities, and prefigured the development of the gated community and the homeowners association. It is infamous for its strict zoning regulations, the city was developed by George Merrick during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The citys architecture is almost entirely Mediterranean Revival style, including the Coral Gables Congregational Church, the domed, Catholic Church of the Little Flower was built somewhat later, in a similar Spanish Renaissance style. By 1926, the city covered 10,000 acres and had netted $150 million in sales, Merrick meticulously designed the downtown commercial district to be only four blocks wide and more than two miles long. The main artery bisected the business district, Merrick could boast that every business in Coral Gables was less than a two-block walk. During World War II many Navy pilots and mechanics were trained and housed in Coral Gables, Coral Gables is located at 25°43′42″N 80°16′16″W. It is bordered on the west by Red Road north of Sunset Drive and West 49th Avenue and it is bordered on the north by Tamiami Trail/U. S. Route 41, except for a section that extends north of 8th Street for eight blocks between Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Douglas Road. S. 1 to Battersea Road, and by Biscayne Bay south of Battersea Road, on the south, it is bordered by the Charles Deering Estate. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 37.2 square miles. 13.1 square miles of it is land and 24.0 square miles of it is water. 4% were vacant, in 2000,24. 45% had children under the age of 18 living with them. In Coral Gables,61. 11% were family households,17. 3% had a householder with no husband present. The average household size was 2.36, and the household had 1.68 vehicles. In 2000, the city population was out with 17. 4% under the age of 18,14. 58% from 18 to 24,25. 02% from 25 to 44,27. 01% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39.44 years, the population consisted of 51. 31% females and 48. 69% males. In 2000, the income for a household in the city was $77,890
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Health District (Miami)
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The Health District, also known as the Civic Center, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami, Florida United States. The Health District has the countrys largest concentration of medical and research facilities after Houston, the neighborhood is composed primarily of hospitals, research institutes, clinics and government offices, and is the center of Miamis growing biotechnology and medical research industry. It is the home of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, the Health District is approximately five minutes north of Downtown Miami via rapid transit on the Miami Metrorail. The neighborhood has its roots as a district with the opening of Jackson Memorial Hospital in 1915, with some of the original buildings. Today, the Alamo serves an era museum of Jacksons history throughout the years, Jackson Memorial Hospital is the major public hospital of Miami, and Jacksons hospital in the Health District is the health systems primary hospital. The Health District is the center of Miamis medical, research and biotechnology industries, the largest is the public hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital, which also has two branch hospitals in northern and southern Miami-Dade County. Other hospitals include, Miami VA Medical Center, University of Miami Hospital, some of the research institutes in the Health District are, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute UM Cytogenetic Lab University of Miami Leonard M. It connects directly to all the hospitals and research centers, and connects the district to Downtown Miami, Dadeland. In March 2012, the new Miami Trolley system inaugurated its first route which passes through Civic Center on its way to Marlins Park
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Hialeah, Florida
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Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, Hialeah has a population of 224,669, Hialeah is the sixth-largest city in the state. It is a city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. It is located west-northwest of Miami, and is the place in the county, other than Homestead, Florida. Hialeah also has one of the largest Spanish-speaking communities in the country, in 2000, 92% of residents reported speaking Spanish at home, and the language is an important part of daily life in the city. This has attracted companies to Hialeah, such as Telemundo, the second largest Spanish-language television network in the United States. Hialeah is served by the Miami Metrorail at Okeechobee, Hialeah, the citys name is most commonly attributed to Muskogee origin, Haiyakpo and hili combining in Hialeah to mean pretty prairie. Alternatively, the word is of Seminole origin meaning Upland Prairie, the city is located upon a large prairie between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades. This high prairie caught the eye of pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss, together, they developed not only the town of Hialeah but also Hialeah Park Race Track. In the early Roaring 20s, Hialeah produced significant entertainment contributions, sporting included the Spanish sport of jai alai and greyhound racing, and media included silent movies like D. W. Griffiths The White Rose which was made at the Miami Movie Studios located in Hialeah. However, the 1926 Miami hurricane brought many of things to an end. In the years since its incorporation in 1925, many historical events and it was considered one of the most grand of thoroughbred horse racing parks with its majestic Mediterranean style architecture and was considered the Jewel of Hialeah at the time. The Parks grandeur has attracted millions, included among them are known around the world such as the Kennedy family, Harry Truman, General Omar Bradley, Winston Churchill. The Hialeah Park Race Track also holds the distinction of being an Audubon Bird Sanctuary due to its famous pink flamingos. The famous aviator Amelia Earhart in 1937 said her final good-byes to the continental U. S. from Hialeah as she left on her ill-fated flight around the world in 1937, Hialeah historian Patricia Fernández-Kelly explained It became an affordable Eden. She further describes the city as a place where different groups have left their imprint while trying to create a sample of what life should be like. S, history as Hialeah is the only American industrial city that continues to grow. The city is one of the largest employers in Dade County. In January 2009, Forbes magazine listed Hialeah as one of the most boring cities in the United States citing the large population
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Hollywood, Florida
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For the city in Florida with movie studios similar to Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, see Orlando. Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami, the average temperature is between 68 and 83 degrees. As of 2013 Hollywood has a population of 146,526, founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. Joseph W. Young founded the city in 1925 and he dreamed of building a motion picture colony on the East Coast of the United States and named the town after Hollywood, California. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged, local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following upon Youngs death in 1934, the city encountered more terrific hurricanes and not only that and it felt as though the city was tumbling slowly piece by piece with all of those tragic events taking place. On Hollywood Boulevard is the Mediterranean-style Joseph Young Mansion, built around 1921, Hollywood is located at 26°1′17″N 80°10′30″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 30.8 square miles. Hollywood is located in southeastern Broward County, and includes approximately 5 to 6 miles of Atlantic Ocean beach,34. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 13. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the family size was 3.00. The citys age demographic shows a population with 21. 3% under the age of 18,7. 0% from 18 to 24,31. 3% from 25 to 44,23. 1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39 years, for every 100 females there were 94.1 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there were 90.9 men, the median income for a household in the city was $40,714, and the median income for a family was $55,849. Males had an income of $33,102 versus $21,237 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,097, about 9. 9% of families and 13. 2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18. 1% of those under age 18 and 11. 8% of those age 65 or over. Hollywood is filled with about 60 parks, seven golf courses, the famous Hollywood Beach is known for its great broadwalk that extends about 2.5 miles along the Atlantic Ocean. Parking is available on streets or in parking garages for a large fee
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Midtown Miami
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Midtown Miami is the collective term for the Wynwood and Edgewater neighborhoods of Miami, Florida, United States, north of Downtown and south of the Miami Design District. It is roughly bound by North 20th Street to the south, I-195 to the north, I-95 to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east. In 2005, construction began on the Midtown Miami development between North 29th and 36th Street and Miami Avenue and the Florida East Coast Railway on what was historically an FEC rail yard. The project is a large-scale, urban development that was planned with 8 high-rise residential buildings, due to the collapse of the real estate bubble in 2007, only two residential buildings, and about 2/3 of The Shops at Midtown were built. In July 2011, plans were announced to begin construction on a new entertainment center at Midtown, including a hotel, critics of Midtown state the lack of parks as a major issue. A fair amount of businesses have also taken up residence in Midtown in office buildings, in industries ranging from interior decor to marketing agency services. At Büro Urbano urban workspace, office spaces are provided for small businesses, Midtown has also become home to Art Miami art fair, which takes place during Miamis Art Basel week. Bacardis United States headquarters were located in the Bacardi buildings also near Midtown Miami, by 2007 Bacardi USA agreed to lease a complex in Coral Gables to use as its new headquarters. At that time, Bacardi had employees in seven buildings across South Florida, Bacardi vacated its former headquarter buildings. Miami citizens began a campaign to label the buildings as historic, allan T. Schulman, a professor of architecture at the University of Miami, said Miamis brand is its identity as a tropical city. The Bacardi buildings are exactly the sort that resonate with our consciousness of what Miami is about, in 2007 Chad Oppenheim, the head of Oppenheim Architecture + Design, described the Bacardi buildings as elegant, with a Modernist a local flavor. In late 2012, the National YoungArts Foundation purchased the storied Bacardi buildings and has converted them into their national headquarters, Midtown Miami Residences Midtown Miami Magazine Downtown Miami Midtown Interchange Miami Design District Miami EXP
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Edgewater (Miami)
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Edgewater is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, United States, located north of Downtown and Omni, and south of the Upper East Side. It roughly bound by North 17th Street to the south, North 37th Street to the north, Edgewater is primarily a residential neighborhood, with many historic early 20th century homes. The neighborhood has many residential towers to the east along Biscayne Bay. Since 2000, the area has grown in popularity, due to its proximity to Downtown, recent developments in the neighborhood, have brought rapid urbanization to the area, with the construction of high-rise and mid-rise residential buildings, and more retail. As of 2000, Edgewater had a population between 14,034 and 14,819 residents, with 6,221 households, and 2,987 families residing in the neighborhood, the median household income was $11,293.93. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 58. 51% Hispanic or Latino of any race,17. 51% Black or African American,21. 55% White, the zip codes for the Edgewater include 33127,33132, and 33137. The area covers 1.679 square miles, as of 2000, there were 7,548 males and 6,486 females. The median age for males were 32.5 years old, the average household size had 2.3 people, while the average family size had 3.2 members. The percentage of families was 25. 2%, while the percentage of married-couple families with children was 10. 9%. 4. 5% of the population was in group homes. The percentage of never-married males 15 years old and over was 20. 1%, while the percentage of never-married females 15 years old, as of 2000, the percentage of people that speak English not well or not at all made up 25. 1% of the population
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Wynwood
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Wynwood is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, United States. It is north of Downtown Miami and Overtown, and adjacent to Edgewater, Wynwood has two major sub-districts, the Wynwood Art District in northern Wynwood, and the Wynwood Fashion District along West 5th Avenue. Wynwood is roughly divided by North 20th Street to the south, I-195 to the north, I-95 to the west, puerto Rican-owned restaurants, shops, markets and other businesses line the streets of Wynwood. Recently, the neighborhood has been gentrified with large investments and developments, the Midtown Miami development construction began in 2005 between North 29th and 36th Street and Miami Avenue and the Florida East Coast Railway on what was historically an FEC rail yard. This brought renewed attention to the area, and previously abandoned warehouses have begun to be occupied by artists, restaurants, cafés, tony Goldman a developer also assisted in the growth of Wynwood by creating a mecca out of the already present graffiti. Some 30 artists traveled from around the world to create what is now the Wynwood Walls, the large arts presence brought upon Miami what is conceived as a new Hipster neighborhood. Art and fashion are major elements of Wynwood, as Wynwood has a fashion and textiles industry, primarily along NW 5th Avenue. The Wynwood Art District is a sub-district of Wynwood that contains over 70 galleries, museums and it is roughly bounded by North 36th Street, North 20th Street, I-95 and Northeast First Avenue. 36th Street is one of the streets in Wynwood, and contains a large number of art studios. The second Saturday night of every month, is ArtWalk in Wynwood, Wynwood is also home to Wynwood Walls, an outdoor mural permanent exhibit featuring some of the worlds most renowned street artists. Additionally there are hundreds of street art and graffiti murals around the district curated yearly by Primary Flight making it one of the biggest street art districts in the world. Wynwood is also home to The Armory Studios, a state of the art recording studio, the Miami Fashion District is a sub-district of Wynwood in Miami, Florida, United States. It is within the neighborhood of Wynwood. It is bounded by North 30th Street to the north, I-95 to the west, North 23rd Street to the south and its primary artery is along Northwest Fifth Avenue, where a lot of the major clothing retailers and distributors are located. The Wynwood Technology District is a sub-district of Wynwood, in July 2011, production plans were announced for the Charlies Angels 2011 TV show remake to be filmed in the old free trade zone building in Wynwood. Other film production studios are located in neighboring Park West, and together, form a larger, home to a large number of art galleries, artist studios, and clothing wholesalers, the art and fashion industries are the main economic engines of Wynwood. In 2013, Miami New Times moved its headquarters to Wynwood, in 2015, American Planning Association named Wynwood one of Americas Greatest Neighborhoods. As of 2000, Wynwood had a population of 14,819 residents, with 6,221 households, the median household income was $11,293.93
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Pembroke Pines, Florida
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Pembroke Pines is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city had a population of 154,750 at the 2010 census, making it the second-most populous city in Broward County and it is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. Its official motto is Join Us - Progress With Us, Pembroke Pines was officially incorporated on January 16,1960. The road put through his land came to be known as Pembroke Road, when incorporating, the mayor suggested the name Pembroke Pines because of the pine trees growing near Pembroke Road. The first inhabitants of the area were American Indians who first appeared about 4,000 years ago, skeletal remains of animal hunters dating back about 10,000 years were found around Broward County, showing that perhaps human beings had lived in the area even earlier. The town started as agricultural land occupied by farms and grew after World War II as servicemen were retiring, including large eastern sections that were part of the Waldrep Dairy Farm. The first two subdivisions were called Pembroke Pines, one of the first homes in the city belonged to Dr. and Mrs. Walter Smith Kipnis, built in 1956. Dr. Kipnis was also the first mayor and it was then known as the Village of Pembroke Pines and was incorporated into a village in 1959. Builders contested the incorporation, so a legal battle ensued concerning the boundaries of the new municipality, City services were added in the 1960s with the building of the first fire department building near North Perry Airport. However, University Drive was the edge of habitable land for residents. In January 1960, Pembroke Pines held another election, and the became a city. This small property was less than a mile and was between Hollywood Boulevard and SW 72nd Avenue, and had the Florida Turnpike to the east. Pembroke Pines sought to give citizens involvement so they organized the Pembroke Pines Civic Association, the square-mile city was unable to expand due to North Perry Airport and the South Florida State Hospital. Joseph LaCroix, a developer, had his 320 acres of land north of Pines Boulevard annexed to the city and this gave a new pathway to proceed westward. In 1977, a security prison known as the Broward Correctional Institution was built in the northwestern part of town. In 1980, property from Flamingo Road to U. S.27 was incorporated into Pembroke Pines and this expansion included the property that is currently C. B. Smith Park as well as what was once the Hollywood Sportatorium and the Miami-Hollywood Motorsports Park. At this time, I-75 was extended through the city, the citys rapid population growth in the mid- to late 1990s was part of the effect of Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Thousands of southern Miami-Dade County residents moved northward to Broward County, the resulting boom ranked the City of Pembroke Pines third in a list of Fastest Growing Cities in the United States in 1999
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South Beach
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South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States, located due east of Miami city proper between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The area encompasses all of the islands of Miami Beach south of Indian Creek. The area has gone through numerous artificial and natural changes over the years, including a regional economy, increased tourism, and the 1926 hurricane. As of 2010,39,186 people lived in South Beach, in 1870, Henry and Charles Lum purchased 165 acres for coconut farming. Charles Lum built the first house on the beach in 1886, in 1894, the Lum brothers left the island, leaving control of the plantation to John Collins, who came to South Beach two years later to survey the land. He used the land for farming purposes, discovering fresh water, in 1912, Miami businessmen the Lummus Brothers acquired 400 acres of Collins land in an effort to build an oceanfront city of modest single family residences. In 1913 Collins started construction of a bridge from Miami to Miami Beach, although some local residents invested in the bridge, Collins ran short of money before he could complete it. Carl G. Fisher, an entrepreneur who made millions in 1909 after selling a business to Union Carbide. His vision was to establish South Beach as a city independent of Miami. This was the year that the restaurant Joes Stone Crab opened. Fisher loaned $50,000 to Collins for his bridge, which was completed in June,1913, the Collins Bridge was later replaced by the Venetian Causeway. On March 26,1915, Collins, Lummus, and Fisher consolidated their efforts, in 1920 the County Causeway was completed. The Lummus brothers sold their oceanfront property, between 6th and 14th Streets, to the city, to this day, this area is known as Lummus Park. In 1920, the Miami Beach land boom began, South Beachs main streets were all suitable for automobile traffic. The population was growing in the 1920s, and several such as Harvey Firestone, J. C. Penney. Stutz, Albert Champion, Frank Seiberling, and Rockwell LaGorce built homes on Miami Beach, president Warren G. Harding stayed at the Flamingo Hotel during this time, increasing interest in the area. In the 1930s, an architectural revolution came to South Beach, bringing Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, South Beach claims to be the worlds largest collection of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture. Napier, New Zealand, another notable Art Deco city, is comparable to Miami Beach as it was rebuilt in the Ziggurat Art Deco style after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1931
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Barry University
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Barry University is a private, Catholic university that was founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters. Located in Miami Shores, Florida, United States, a north of Downtown Miami. Consisting of six schools and two colleges, Barry University has more than 7,000 students, a campus of 54 buildings, student to faculty ratio is 12,1. Barry College was founded as a college by a pair of siblings, Rev. Patrick Barry, Bishop of St. Augustine. Mother Mary Gerald Barry, OP, then prioress of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, the construction of what was then the Barry College for Women began in 1940, in what had previously been a tract of tropical vegetation. The empty lot was transformed into the main campus, in Miami Shores. The original campus consisted of five buildings, mother Barry served as president from 1940-1961. Barry College became Barry University on November 13,1981, Barry University continues to be sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan. It is an independent 501 organization and has an independent Board of Trustees, the motherhouse of the sisters is in Adrian, Michigan. The Cor Jesu Chapel is intended to be the spiritual and physical heart of the campus and it was financed with the aid of Margaret Brady Farrell, a parishioner of St. Patricks Church in Miami Beach. Soon after discovering that the construction of the Cor Jesu was postponed due to insufficient funds, in her honor, the Division of Business and Finance building was dedicated as Farrell House. The chapel is topped by an 80-foot tower holding carillon chimes, traces of Romanesque architecture can be seen in the inside of the chapel which was built in choir style with wood wainscoting and a canopy over the altar. A stained-glass window of amber color, containing the image of a Celtic cross, is visible from the entrance of the campus. Barry Universitys main campus is in Miami Shores, Florida, while the main campus is in Miami Shores, Barry University offers several continuing adult education classes at other locations in Florida. Barry University has a campus in Orlando containing the Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law, Barry University also has a campus on the island of St. Croix, where a third branch of its Physician Assistant Program is located. There are more than 40 buildings at the Miami Shores campus and these contain technology laboratories and indoor and outdoor sporting facilities. The library also contains a collection of documents pertaining to Operation Pedro Pan, in 1999, the Barry University School of Law was established in Orlando, Florida. Barry Universitys law school is named the Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law, Barry University offers more than 60 traditional undergraduate programs, accelerated bachelors programs designed specifically for working adults, and more than 50 graduate programs in 9 schools
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Broward College
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Broward College, is a state college in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is part of the Florida College System and it was established in 1959 as part of a move to broaden Floridas two-year college. In 2008 it adopted its current name, reflecting that it is one of the schools designated a state college, in 2012, Broward College was named one of the top 10 percent of community colleges in the nation by the Washington D. C. -based Aspen Institute. The institution was founded in 1959 as the Junior College of Broward County and it opened its doors the following year under the leadership of President Joe B. Rushing, with a faculty of 28 serving a class of 701 students and he was followed by Dr. Myron Blee, and then in 1968, A. Hugh Adams, superintendent of education in Charlotte County, Florida, was appointed president. A month after his arrival, the changed its name to Broward Junior College. Two months after Dr. Adams’ arrival, the Florida Legislature removed junior colleges from oversight by county school boards, Adams’ interests lay in expanding access to the college for citizens living throughout the county. In his 19 years as president, South and North campuses were created, as was the Downtown Center and the Tigertail Lake Center. Succeeding Adams was Dr. Will Holcombe, a protégée of Dr. James L. Wattenbarger, Dr. Holcombe had served in a variety of administrative capacities at Broward before joining Brevard’s administrative team. During his 17 years as president, Holcombe worked to expand infrastructure and to community partnerships to better serve the needs of the community. Dr. Larry Calderon succeeded Holcombe upon his retirement in 2004, Dr. Calderon, an expert in strategic planning, was serving as president of Ventura College when he was appointed Browards fifth president, and its first of Hispanic heritage. When Dr. Calderon left the college in 2006, Holcombe returned to serve as president through the appointment of J. David Armstrong. President Armstrong came to the college from his position as Chancellor of the Florida College System, many documents describing this history have been digitized by the Broward College Archives and Special Collections department on Central Campus and are available online at the Internet Archives. Broward College has three campuses, which are connected to additional partnership centers, or branches, throughout Broward County, hugh Adams Central Campus, the college’s first permanent campus, is in Davie. The campus also features the Ralph R. Bailey Concert Hall, the facility also houses the New Gallery. The Library there is a joint research facility owned by the college in partnership with Florida Atlantic University, Adams Campus also is home to the College Academy @ BC a collegiate high school opened in partnership with the Broward County Public Schools in 2001. The campus is home to the college’s Aviation Institute, located adjacent to North Perry Airport, samuels South Campus has three partnership branches, including Pines Center, Miramar Town Center, and Miramar West Center
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Florida Atlantic University
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FAU belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and serves South Florida, which has a population of more than five million people and spans more than 100 miles of coastline. Florida Atlantic University is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a university with high research activity. The university offers more than 180 undergraduate and graduate programs within its 10 colleges in addition to a professional degree from the College of Medicine. Programs of study cover arts and humanities, the sciences, medicine, nursing, accounting, business, education, public administration, social work, architecture, engineering, and computer science. Florida Atlantic opened in 1964 as the first public university in southeast Florida, offering only upper-division, initial enrollment was only 867 students, increasing in 1984 when the university admitted its first lower-division undergraduate students. As of 2012, enrollment has grown to over 30,000 students representing 140 countries,50 states, since its inception, Florida Atlantic has awarded more than 110,000 degrees to nearly 153,160 alumni. In recent years, FAU has undertaken an effort to increase its academic, the university has raised admissions standards, increased research funding, built new facilities, and established notable partnerships with major research institutions. Changes include a stadium, additional on-campus housing, and the establishment of a College of Medicine in 2010. On July 15,1961, to meet the educational demands of South Florida. Florida Atlantic University was built on Boca Raton Army Airfield, a 1940s-era army airbase, during World War II, the airfield served as the Army Air Corps sole radar training facility. The base was built on the existing Boca Raton Airport and on 5,860 acres of adjacent land, a majority of the land was acquired from Japanese-American farmers from the failing Yamato Colony. The land was seized through eminent domain, leaving many Japanese-Americans little recourse in the days of World War II. The airbase was used for training, anti-submarine patrols along the coast. The airfield was composed of four runways, still visible on the Boca Campus today, by early 1947, the military decided to transfer future radar training operations to Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. The departure of the air force in 1947 would leave Boca Raton Army Airfield essentially abandoned, Florida Atlantic University opened on September 14,1964, with an initial student body of 867 students in five colleges. The first degree awarded was an honorary doctorate given to President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 25,1964, at the dedication, at the time of its opening, there were 120 faculty out of a total of 350 employees. On-campus housing for students was first added in September 1965, when Algonquin Hall opened, Florida Atlantics history is one of continuing expansion as the universitys service population has grown. Florida Atlantic began its expansion beyond a one-campus university in 1971, due to a rapidly expanding population in South Florida, in 1984 Florida Atlantic opened its doors to lower-division undergraduate students
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Florida International University
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Florida International University is an American metropolitan public research university in Greater Miami, Florida, United States. FIU has two campuses in Miami-Dade County, with its main campus in University Park. Florida International University is classified as a university with highest research activity by the Carnegie Foundation. Founded in 1965, FIU is the youngest university to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the countrys oldest academic honor society. FIU belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and is one of Floridas primary graduate research universities, awarding over 3,400 graduate, the university offers 191 programs of study with more than 280 majors in 23 colleges and schools. FIU offers many programs, including architecture, business administration, engineering, law, and medicine, offering 81 masters degrees,34 doctoral degrees. FIU is the largest university in South Florida, the 2nd-largest in Florida, total enrollment in 2014-2015 was 54,099 students, including 7,814 graduate students. According to U. S. News college rankings and reviews, since 2007, more valedictorians from South Florida choose to attend FIU than any other university in the country. As Miamis public research university, competition to enroll at FIU has heightened as more students each year. While his bill did not pass, Graham persisted in presenting his proposal to colleagues and he felt the establishment of a public university was necessary to serve the citys growing population. In 1964, Senate Bill 711 was introduced by Florida Senator Robert M. Haverfield and it instructed the state Board of Education and the Board of Regents, to begin planning for the development of a state university in Miami. The bill was signed into law by then-governor W. Haydon Burns in June 1965, FIUs founding president Charles Chuck Perry was appointed by the Board of Regents in July 1969 after a nationwide search. At 32 years old, the new president was the youngest in the history of the State University System and, at the time, Perry recruited three co-founders, Butler Waugh, Donald McDowell and Nick Sileo. Alvah Chapman, Jr. former Miami Herald publisher and Knight Ridder chairman, used his civic standing, in the 1980s, Chapman became chair of the FIU Foundation Board of Trustees. The abandoned airports air traffic control tower became FIUs first building and it originally had no telephones, no drinking water, and no furniture. In September 1972,5,667 students entered the new state university, previously, Miami had been the largest city in the country lacking a public baccalaureate-granting institution. Eighty percent of the student body had just graduated from Dade County Junior College, a typical student entering FIU was 25 years old and attending school full-time while holding down a full-time job. Negotiations with the University of Miami and Dade County Junior College led FIU to open as an upper-division only school and it would be 9 years before lower-division classes were added
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Johnson & Wales University
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Johnson & Wales University is an American private, nonprofit, co-educational, career-oriented university with four regional campuses located throughout the United States. Providence, Rhode Island is home to JWUs first and largest campus, founded as a business school in 1914 by Gertrude I. Johnson and Mary T. The university is accredited by the New England Association of Schools & Colleges, JWU currently has four academic units at four of its different campuses, the College of Business, the College of Culinary Arts, the Hospitality College, and the College of Arts & Sciences. The Providence Downcity campus is home to the College of Business, the Hospitality College, the College of Arts & Sciences, and this campus is home to several additional academic units, the Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School and the College of Culinary Arts. It also has the School of Education, which offers specialized masters, students just entering the field can earn a Master of Arts in Teaching, and current teachers can earn a Masters of Education degree. For current teachers who want to advance their degree, there is a program where they can earn their Ed. D. Johnson & Wales University also offers 11 online bachelors degrees and nine masters degree programs. Johnson & Wales University is well known for its arts program. The university is the largest food service educator in the world, JWU is home to the 39th largest college of business in the United States. JWUs academic year is divided into three trimesters, each 11 weeks long, where the fall and spring semesters are replaced with fall, winter. Classes are also offered during the months, creating a fourth academic period. This results in a spring break and a typical summer break from May to September. During fall, winter, and spring terms, students take three to four courses a term. Students in the program are enrolled in five nine-day lab sessions. Such courses are available for full-time students. The facilities include the Radisson Hotel Providence Airport in Warwick, the university also owns the Doubletree Hotel Charlotte-Gateway Village at the Charlotte Campus. The Wildcat Center is the facility of Johnson & Wales University. Denver was the campus to officially have that name, until the Providence campus renamed its gym as well
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Miami Dade College
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Miami Dade College, or simply Miami Dade or MDC, is a state college located in Miami, Florida. Miami Dade has eight campuses and twenty-one outreach centers located throughout Miami-Dade County, founded in 1959, Miami Dade is the largest college in the Florida College System with over 165,000 students. Additionally, MDC is also the largest institution of education in Florida. Miami Dade Colleges main campus, the Wolfson Campus, is in Downtown Miami, Miami Dade College was established in 1959 and opened in 1960 as Dade County Junior College. The original campus was located at the recently built Miami Central High School, the campus consisted of a portion of the school and an adjacent farm. In 1960, a facility was built on an old air station near Opa-locka Airport. The College enrolled African American students and Cuban exiles who could not afford other schools, as the college grew, a temporary satellite campus opened in what is today Pinecrest at Miami Palmetto High School until the new South Campus was built in Kendall. Later renamed Miami-Dade Junior College, its two flagship campuses expanded and enrolled students, eventually outgrowing the University of Florida and Florida State University. After some time, college board of directors chairman Mitchell Wolfson envisioned a campus at the heart of Downtown Miami, and in 1973, the College changed its name to Miami-Dade Community College around the same time. The College initially implemented an open policy, meaning anyone who could afford classes was allowed to enroll. Because of this, the focus of the College became strengthening its academics, as a result, the Medical Center was built near Miamis Civic Center adjacent to the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital to train students in Allied Health and nursing programs. With the Mariel exile community arriving in 1980, the College created a center in Hialeah to give incoming refugees educational opportunities. Another outreach center, the InterAmerican center, was built to accommodate bilingual education, the Homestead Campus was built in 1990 in Homestead to relieve the concerns of students having to drive to the Kendall Campus In Miami. In the mid-1990s, the College made use of new media, as the Florida legislature reduced the education budget, the College began to rely heavily on the Miami Dade College Foundation, consisting mainly of Alumni, for financial support. Beginning in 2001, the College implemented a plan to revamp the College. In 2002, the College disbanded its Honors Program and created The Honors College for talented high school graduates, the Honors College is a representation of Miami Dade Colleges most academically-gifted students in different fields and was originally based in the three larger campuses. In 2007, The Honors College expanded into the InterAmerican Campus with The Honors College Dual Language Honors Program, the Dual Language Honors Program opened its doors to bilingual students who wish to continue their careers with professional fluency in the English and Spanish languages. In 2003, the College was granted the right to award degrees in education to meet future education needs
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Miami International University of Art & Design
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Established in 1965, the University provides career-focused education in the applied arts and design, and is located in Downtown Miami. The school is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the schools programs are designed to make each student marketable to employers after graduation, and to help develop creativity. Students receive assistance with career planning from their entry through graduation, the Career Services Department is designed to encourage the successful entry into each graduate’s chosen field. In addition, students are encouraged to work in competitions, volunteer time on extra curricular projects related to their fields of study. The Student Housing Office offers two services to meet the students needs, supervised housing and Independent-housing information. Miami International University of Art & Design offers university-owned student housing, edgewater Lofts is located a couple blocks North of the main university building on Biscayne Boulevard. The high rise apartment building accommodates up to 180 students, University sponsored apartments are same-sex, with co-educational floors. The residence hall has 24/7 front desk coverage, with four resident assistants, Miami International University of Art & Design official website
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Nova Southeastern University
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Nova Southeastern University is a private nonprofit university, with a main campus located on 300 acres in Davie, in the US state of Florida. Formerly referred to as Nova and now commonly called NSU, the university consists of 18 colleges. The university offers degrees in law, business, osteopathic medicine, allied health, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, physical therapy, education, occupational therapy. Nova Southeastern enrolled 24,148 students in the 2014-2015 academic year, in 1994, the university merged with the Southeastern University of the Health Sciences and assumed its current name. NSU is classified as a research and community engaged university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and also has numerous additional specialized accreditation for its colleges, the NSU Sharks compete in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as members of the Sunshine State Conference. The university, originally named Nova University of Advanced Technology, was chartered by the state of Florida on December 4,1964, with an inaugural class of 17 students, the university opened as a graduate school for the social and physical sciences. The university was located on a campus in downtown Fort Lauderdale but later moved to its current campus in Davie. A portion of the site of this campus was once a training airfield during World War II. The remnants of the surrounding the airfield are still present in the form of roads used on the campus. After World War II, the government made a commitment to the Forman family, from whom the land was purchased. On June 23,1970, the board of trustees voted to enter into a federation with the New York Institute of Technology, the president of NYIT, Alexander Schure, Ph. D. became chancellor of Nova University. Abraham S. Fischler became the president of the university. The university charter was amended and “of Advanced Technology” was dropped from its corporate name, in 1971, Nova University received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1972, the university introduced its first off-campus course of study in education, in 1974, NSU opened a law school, with an inaugural class of 175 students. The same year, the university began offering evening courses on campus for undergraduates, the following year, in 1975, the law school received approval from the American Bar Association. In the early 1980s, the university received a $16 million gift from the Leo Goodwin Sr. Trust, in 1985, NSU ended its collaboration with New York Institute of Technology, and began offering its first online classes. In 1989, enrollment reached 8,000 students, with nearly 25,000 alumni, in 2001, the Alvin Sherman Library for Research and Information Technology Center was completed and is the largest public library facility in the state of Florida
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St. Thomas University (Florida)
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St. Thomas University is a private Roman Catholic university in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. When the Castro government expelled the Augustinians from Cuba in 1961 and its first president had been vice rector of Universidad Villanueva. The college was accepted as a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, through continued growth and development, Biscayne College earned university status in 1984 after the addition of 10 Masters degree programs and the opening of the School of Law. At that point, its changed to St. Thomas University. Florida Center for Theological Studies was a Christian theological seminary in Miami, Florida, founded in 1983, the Florida Center for Theological Studies merged into the School of Theology and Ministry at St. Thomas University in April 2011. The Miami Dolphins NFL team trained at St. Thomas University, the campus is located in Miami Gardens, Florida, on 150 acres bounded on the north by the Palmetto Expressway, on the west by NW 37th Avenue, and on the east by NW 32nd Avenue. The northern side of the campus is occupied by woods and a monastery, the Law School is south of the Library. St. Thomas has four halls and apartments -including The University Inn. A University Inn is located next to the Student Center in the middle of the campus, the west and south sides of the campus are athletic facilities. On-campus athletics facilities include a new field, the Paul Demie Mainier Baseball Field. The Fernandez Family Center for Leadership and Wellness, which was dedicated in September 2009 is the home of Bobcat athletics and this 62, 000-square-foot multipurpose facility houses basketball and volleyball, intramural sports, and a state-of-the-arts fitness and wellness center. St. Thomas is led by a 35-member Board of Trustees, each board member is required to give a gift to the annual campaign and a one time gift to the capital campaign. Each Trustee serves two consecutive three-year terms, the board meets four times per fiscal year and each board member serves on a university standing committee. Sports Administration MSM Justice Administration https, //www. stu. D, degree LL. M. in Intercultural Human Rights J. S. D. in Intercultural Human Rights J. D. /M. S. Sports Administration MSM Justice Administration St. Thomas University offers B. A. M. A. M. S, J. D. Ed. D. and Ph. D. programs through its college and various schools. It offers several joint degree programs and an accelerated B. A. /J. D. as well. The School of Law at St. Thomas was fully accredited by the American Bar Association in February 1995, and offers the Juris Doctor degree as well as the Masters of Law. St. Thomas in 2013-14 had an enrollment of 5,294 students -3,582 in the undergraduate program,797 in its graduate program and 915 in the law school
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University of Miami
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The University of Miami is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2015, the university enrolls 16,848 students in 12 separate colleges/schools, the university offers 116 undergraduate,105 masters, and 63 doctoral degree programs, of which 59 are research/scholarship and four professional areas of study. Over the years, the students have represented all 50 states. With more than 14,000 full and part-time faculty and staff, uM’s main campus in Coral Gables has 239 acres and over 5.7 million square feet of buildings. In the 2017 U. S. News and World Report study of colleges and universities, Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $346.6 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM offers a library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage. UM also offers a range of student activities, including fraternities and sororities. UMs intercollegiate athletic teams, collectively known as the Miami Hurricanes, UMs football team has won five national championships since 1983 and its baseball team has won four national championships since 1982. They believed that a university would benefit their community. They were overly optimistic about future financial support for UM because the South Florida land boom was at its peak, the university began in earnest in 1925 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gave 160 acres and nearly $5 million, to the effort. These contributions were land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had sold in the city. The university was chartered on April 18,1925 by the Circuit Court for Dade County. By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM, the boom had collapsed. For the next 15 years the university barely remained solvent, the construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties. In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with partitions separating classrooms, in 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. UMs plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open, a reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by UMs first president Bowman Foster Ashe. The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E. B, douglas, David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C, in 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest
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Amelia Earhart Park
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Amelia Earhart Park is a 515-acre urban park in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, just north of Hialeah, Florida. It offers a number of attractions like bike trails, skateboarding. This Miami-Dade County regional park was the undeveloped portion of decades old Naval Air Station Miami. It was never an airport and never part of the City of Miami-owned Miami Municipal Airport which was on the east side of LeJeune Road and south of NW 119th Street in Hialeah. Amelia Earharts last ill-fated trip around the flight left from Miami Municipal Airport in 1937 en route to San Juan, PR. Miami Municipal Airport was renamed Amelia Earhart Field in October 1947, marine Corps Air Station Miami only operated a couple of years before the Marines shut it down. S. Coast Guards Air Station Miami, the county named the airport Opa-locka Airport due to the name of the city immediately east of the airport. 2nd Avenue in Hialeah, to be given to the county for a regional park. The remaining southern portion of undeveloped air station land was auctioned off to private developers west, Amelia Earharts Farm Village is named after Bill Graham, son of former state senator Ernest R. Cap Graham, and the developer of the Miami Lakes residential and commercial development west of Opa-locka Executive Airport, the park offers 8-mile of bike trails. They include single track and fire road trails with a number of climbs, downhills, near the barn is a country store and an adjoining insect museum. There is fenced, 5-acre dog park, an 18-hole disc golf course, glenn Curtiss Amelia Earhart Notes Bibliography MTB Review, Trails. mtbr. com,2006 South Florida dot Com, Southflorida. com,2006
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Arch Creek, Florida
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Arch Creek was an early settlement in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in present-day metropolitan Miami. Tequesta Indians thrived here before the first Europeans arrived in the early 16th century, the name is derived from the natural limestone bridge spanning 40 feet across the creek. It is part of the Arch Creek Memorial Park at 1855 Northeast 135th Street and it was added to the U. S. National Register of Historic Places on July 15,1986. During the Seminole Wars, General Abner Doubleday blazed a trail between Fort Lauderdale and Fort Dallas on the Miami River and this Military Trail crossed over the limestone bridge, traversing the fresh water creek flowing from the Everglades to Biscayne Bay. In 1895, Henry Flaglers railroad reached Arch Creek as it expanded southward, bringing a stream of visitors and settlers. The first families to settle the area planted tomatoes and pineapples, a railroad depot was established in 1903. Soon after, a plant, a sawmill, a post office. By 1910, the area was a place for tourists. The shell house sold souvenirs, postcards and refreshments, on weekends, families from many miles away would attend barbecues with as many as 500 people. By 1912, the community included eighteen homes, a church, a store, a blacksmith shop. By 1920, the population of Arch Creek had grown to 307, the Biscayne Canal was dug in 1924 to reduce flooding of farmland. During the Florida land boom of the 1920s, portions of the community were subdivided, on February 5,1926, the incorporated Town of Miami Shores was established by a vote of 38 registered voters. A destructive hurricane in September 1926 brought land sales to a halt, however, proceeds of a $287,000 bond issue were used to build a new city hall in 1928. The Arch Creek school burned down in 1927 and was replaced in 1928 by the W. J. Bryan school, the town kept the name of Miami Shores until 1931. In 1952 it was incorporated into the City of North Miami, in 1957, the first of many threats against the future of the natural bridge materialized. The bridge was endangered by a plan to drain low-lying areas as part of a prevention program. The Army Corps of Engineers wanted to blow up the bridge, a 1957 newspaper article announced that the bridge must be sacrificed for better drainage of the area. Protests from members of the local Audubon Society, the Historical Association of Southern Florida, things remained quiet until the 1970s, when Arch Creek became the property of the Chrysler Corporation
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The Barnacle Historic State Park
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The Barnacle Historic State Park is a 5-acre Florida State Park in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida at 3485 Main Highway. Built in 1891, it is the oldest house in its location in Miami-Dade County. The Barnacle was the home of Ralph Middleton Munroe, one of Coconut Grove’s founders, as well as founder and he was also a leading designer of sailing yachts. The Florida Park Service acquired the remaining 5 acres of Munroes original 40-acre homesite from his descendants in 1973, the Barnacle Historic State Park is served by the Miami Metrorail at the Douglas Road and the Coconut Grove stations. Ralph Middleton Munroe first visited South Florida in 1877 while on vacation from New York City, on his second trip he brought his wife who suffered from tuberculosis. Unfortunately, the failed and she died. Her body is buried in Coconut Grove and he returned several times to the area and in 1887 decided to settle in the Bay. Ralph Munroe purchased 40 acres of bayfront land in 1886 for $400 in addition to one of his sailboats and his boathouse was built in 1887 and he lived on its upper floor until his main house was completed in 1891. The house, a structure, was raised off the ground on wood pilings. Its central room is octagonal in shape and Munroe called his home The Barnacle and it remained a bungalow until 1908 when more space was needed for his growing family. The whole structure was lifted and a new first story inserted below, in 1912 a library was built adjacent to the house. The Barnacle survived the disastrous 1926 hurricane and Hurricane Andrew in 1992 with only minimal damage, Ralph Munroes principal passion in life was designing yachts. Boats were the form of transportation in the early days of Coconut Grove. Many South Floridians commissioned Munroe to design their yachts, in 1887, a group of residents formed the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, electing Munroe as Commodore, a title that he held for 22 years. In his lifetime, he plans for 56 different yachts. Micco, one of the last of Munroes boats, was displayed at the park until Hurricane Andrew reduced the 101-year-old vessel to fragments, egret, a replica of Munroes 28-foot modified sharpie is now moored offshore. As a seaman, civic activist, naturalist, and photographer, a walk into the park passes through a tropical hardwood hammock. It is representative of the landscape within the city of Miami
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Bayfront Park
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Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay. The park began construction in 1924 under the plans of Warren Henry Manning. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, Bayfront Park is bordered on the north by Bayside Marketplace and the American Airlines Arena, on the south by Chopin Plaza, on the west by Biscayne Boulevard and on the east by Biscayne Bay. Seven blocks north is Bayfront Parks partner park, the 30-acre Bicentennial Park, along with Cermak, who died of his wounds 19 days later, four other people were hit by the gunman, one of whom also died. A serious debate has ensued as to whether Zangara had been trying to assassinate Roosevelt instead of Cermak. Bayfront Park holds the citys annual Americas Birthday Bash on Independence Day, the park also hosts the citys official New Years Eve party that annually hosts over 70,000 visitors. Visitors are encouraged to take public transport for events at Bayfront Park as parking can be scarce, the nearest Metrorail station is Government Center. From there a connection to the Metromover is available with three stops near the park, Bayfront Park, First Street, and College/Bayside. It also holds the Ultra Music Festival which goes on for 3 days and has attendance of 55,000 people each day and 165,000 people over the three days. Caesar LaMonaca, was a composer and band leader for the City of Miami and his band gave musical performances in its Bayfront Park from 1928-1978. LaMonaca ended his tenure as the city’s musical maestro in 1978, after falling from the podium during a performance. The Klipsch Amphitheatre has a capacity of 10,000 people,2,672 fixed benches and 7,328 in the lawn. The Tina Hills Pavilion is a pavilion with a seating capacity of 1,000 people,200 fixed seats and 800 in the lawn. A series of events have taken place on a temporary street circuit at Bayfront Park dating back to 1983
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Big Cypress National Preserve
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Big Cypress National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located in southern Florida, about 45 miles west of Miami. In 2008, Florida film producer Elam Stoltzfus featured this preserve in a PBS documentary, Big Cypress has a tropical savannah climate. Days are some of the hottest in Florida, January has an average high of 78.4 and August has an average high of 94.0 while Miami only averages 76.1 and 90.7. However, nights cool down into the 50s in winter, means range from 66.5 in January to 84.7 in August. Highs exceed 90 on 159 days per year, while they fall below 70 on just 10, hardiness zone is 10A, with an average annual minimum of 34. The lowest recorded maximum was 48 in 2010, while the highest minimum on record was 89 in 2005, ecologically, the preserve is slightly more elevated than the western Everglades. Big Cypress was historically occupied by cultures of Native Americans. Their descendants include the federally recognized Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, early European-American settlers hunted herons and egrets, whose feathers were extremely popular with 19th and 20th-century hat-makers in New York and Paris. Poachers hunted American alligators and crocodiles to near extinction, when the timber industry began to operate in the area, it built railroads, and cut and hauled out most of the cypress ecosystems old growth trees. Portions of the Big Cypress were farmed for winter vegetables, the search for oil in Florida began in 1901, but with no success. The wells currently produce about 20 barrels of oil per day and they and other hunters may use off-road vehicles, and home and business owners have been permitted to keep their properties in the preserve. In the 1960s, Native Americans, hunters, and conservationists succeeded at fighting an effort to move Miami International Airports international flights to a new airport in the Big Cypress area and they followed up with a campaign to have Big Cypress included in the National Parks System. Although construction of the new airport had begun, it was stopped after one runway was completed. It is now known as the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the preserve is highly diverse biologically. The preserve is home to federally listed endangered species including, the eastern indigo snake. Twelve campgrounds in Big Cypress are tailored to motor vehicles, where tourists planning overnight stays can park their vehicles, the southern terminus of the Florida National Scenic Trail is located in Big Cypress, and provides hiking opportunities during the winter months. Some of the most beautiful wading and walking can be found in cypress strands, because alligators are numerous and often large, wading through the cypress country requires constant alertness. The preserves visitor center offers a video about the surroundings
