On November 14 2008 Maidique announced that he would be stepping down and asked FIU's Board of Trustees to begin the search of a new president He said he would remain president until a new one was found on April 25 2009 Mark B Rosenberg was selected to become FIU's fifth president He signed a five-year contract with the Board of Trustees on August 29 2009 Rosenberg became FIU's fifth president, Stacy Street 10 West Palm Beach Palm Beach 82,103 99,919 111,398 +11.49%, The Central Business District (CBD) is the traditional downtown of Miami. . 3.10 Campus transportation In 2017 Florida became the United States' eighth largest exporter of trade goods Florida's top countries for export are Brazil Canada Mexico Germany and Colombia in 2017 Florida became the United States' tenth largest importer of trade goods Florida imported US$75.4 billion worth of goods globally in 2017 the value of Florida's imports equals 3.2% of United States' overall imported products for 2017 Florida's top countries for imports are China Mexico Canada Germany and France; ! Cayman Airways Cayman Brac Grand Cayman See also: List of amusement parks in Greater Orlando List of shopping malls in the Miami metropolitan area and List of casinos in Florida. Personal income Other areas and attractions Uneven limestone formations in an Everglades sawgrass prairie Map of Miami in 1955 No party preference 452,692 31.41%. 2010 U.S Census Other causeways are the John F Kennedy (79th Street) and Broad causeways (connecting the Miami mainland) and the Rickenbacker Causeway (connecting Miami to Key Biscayne) the Card Sound Bridge connects the mainland in the Homestead Florida area to the northern part of Key Largo. Twenty-first century Average maximum and minimum levels of rainfall for the lower east coast of Florida from 1918 to 1985, 9.5 Street grid Special features, As of 2010 28.07% of the population spoke only English at home while 63.77% of the population spoke Spanish 4.22% spoke French Creole (mainly Haitian Creole) 0.64% French and 0.55% Portuguese 52% of the county residents were born outside the United States while 71.93% of the population spoke a language other than English at home!
American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.2% 7 Further reading Port Tampa Bay is the largest port in Florida. . She tried to persuade railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line the Florida East Coast Railway southward to the area but he initially declined in December 1894 Florida was struck by a freeze that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state a few months later on the night of February 7 1895 the northern part of Florida was hit by another freeze that wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees Unlike most of the rest of the state the Miami area was unaffected Tuttle wrote to Flagler again asking him to visit the area and to see it for himself Flagler sent James E Ingraham to investigate and he returned with a favorable report and a box of orange blossoms to show that the area had escaped the frost Flagler followed up with his own visit and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel. Model United Nations Program, Government Center is one of the main stations for Metrorail and Metromover, South Bay 6.2 Exploration (188) 7.01 The urban bypass expressway in greater Fort Lauderdale is the Sawgrass Expressway (SR 869) connecting the northern Broward County coast at I-95 and Deerfield Beach to I-595 and I-75 at Alligator Alley in Sunrise. Miami Florida Business directory, After Frank Borman became president of Eastern Airlines in 1975 he moved Eastern's headquarters from Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan New York City to an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County Around 1991 the Miami-Dade County lost a few corporations including Eastern Airlines which folded in 1991, 1.1 Virginia Key Beach Park; Study abroad Main article: Miami-Dade Transit Dade County Courthouse completed in 1926 Alexander Dinelaris Jr. unmatriculated Screenwriter playwright producer Main article: Geography of Florida See also: List of Florida locations by per capita income. Lauderhill 2.2 Brickell Undergraduate The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 12,000 years ago the first inhabitants settled on the banks of the Miami River with the main villages on the northern banks. Public transportation in Miami is operated by Miami-Dade Transit and SFRTA and includes commuter rail (Tri-Rail) heavy-rail rapid transit (Metrorail) an elevated people mover (Metromover) and buses (Metrobus) Miami has Florida's highest transit ridership as about 17% of Miamians use transit on a daily basis the average Miami public transit commute on weekdays is 90 minutes while 39% of public transit riders commute for more than 2 hours a day the average wait time at a public transit stop or station is 18 minutes while 37% of riders wait for more than 20 minutes on average every day the average single trip distance with public transit is 7.46 mi (12 km) while 38% travel more than 8.08 mi (13 km) in each direction.
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