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3.3 Regional centers Government Center (NW 1st Street and 1st Avenue). Campus Support Complex 1999 (19.4) 9 Environmental issues White or Caucasian (including White Hispanic) 72.6% 73.8% 75.0%. Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department is the correction agency! Recently the City of Miami along with the Downtown Development Authority has begun bicycle initiaves promoting citywide bike parking and bike lanes that have made bicycling much more popular for residents Bike lanes and bike sharrows are currently planned for the majority of Downtown streets to be painted by the end of 2010 the Venetian Causeway is a popular bicycle commuter route that connects South Beach to Downtown the Rickenbacker Causeway is very popular on weekends for recreational bicyclists and often bicycles can outnumber cars on the causeway!

(27.3) 84.9 In 1891 a Cleveland woman named Julia Tuttle decided to move to South Florida to make a new start in her life after the death of her husband Frederick Tuttle She purchased 640 acres on the north bank of the Miami River in present-day downtown Miami, Year Democratic Republican After Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba following the Revolution in 1959 many wealthy Cubans sought refuge in Miami further increasing the city's population Miami developed new businesses and cultural amenities as part of the New South in the 1980s and 1990s At the same time South Florida weathered social problems related to drug wars immigration from Haiti and Latin America and the widespread destruction of Hurricane Andrew Racial and cultural tensions sometimes sparked but the city developed in the latter half of the 20th century as a major international financial and cultural center It is the second-largest U.S city with a Spanish-speaking majority (after El Paso Texas) and the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. Shuttered for two decades Virginia Key Beach was eroded by storms its buildings damaged and vandalized and park lands invaded by exotic plants and animals Beset by declining revenues some City officials began to speculate over schemes to sell off the development rights on Virginia Key as plans leaked a local coalition formed among Miami's grassroots activists protesting any commercial development and asking for a complete restoration and re-opening of Miami's largest park and only public park on the Atlantic Ocean the leadership at City Hall appointed an official community-based civil rights task force to provide a public forum for the park's future; Following the demise of the Calusa and Tequesta Native Americans in southern Florida were referred to as "Spanish Indians" in the 1740s probably due to their friendlier relations with Spain the Creek invaded the Florida peninsula; they conquered and assimilated what was left of pre-Columbian societies into the Creek Confederacy They were joined by remnant Indian groups and formed the Seminole a new tribe by ethnogenesis the Seminole originally settled in the northern portion of the territory in addition free blacks and fugitive slaves made their way to Florida where Spain had promised slaves freedom and arms if they converted to Catholicism and pledged loyalty to Spain These African Americans gradually created communities near those of the Seminole and became known as the Black Seminoles the groups acted as allies. Main article: Seminole, Everglades restoration received $96 million of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 As a result of the stimulus package a mile-long (1.6 km) bridge to replace the Tamiami Trail a road that borders Everglades National Park to the north and has blocked water from reaching the southern Everglades was begun by the Army Corps of Engineers in December 2009 the next month work began to reconstruct the C-111 canal east of the park that historically diverted water into Florida Bay Governor Charlie Crist announced the same month that $50 million of state funds would be earmarked for Everglades restoration in May 2010 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of bridges were proposed to be added to the Tamiami Trail, On April 22 1895 Flagler wrote Tuttle a long letter recapping her offer of land to him in exchange for extending his railroad to Miami laying out a city and building a hotel the terms provided that Tuttle would award Flagler a 100-acre (0.4 km2) tract of land for the city to grow Around the same time Flagler wrote a similar letter to William and Mary Brickell who had also verbally agreed to give land during his visit. Basketball: Miami Floridians (ABA) Miami Sol (WNBA) Miami Tropics (ABA) Business top 200-300 In 1936 Mr Hopkins (Lindsey Hopkins Jr.) and his father (Lindsey Hopkins Sr.) acquired the skeleton of the bankrupt unfinished Roosevelt Hotel at 1410 NE Second Ave at public auction for $38,000 They spent a million dollars fixing it up in 1941 four years after the elder Lindsey Hopkins' death Mr Hopkins sold the building to the School Board for $225,000 as a memorial to his father. South Miami Heights During his pro career in the 1970s NFL offensive lineman Ed Newman worked as an assistant coach of the Florida International University wrestling team in the off-season.