. (26.4) 73.8 12.7 Sports facilities Bookstores In February 1942 the Gulf Sea Frontier was established to help guard the waters around Florida by June of that year more attacks forced military leaders in Washington D.C to increase the numbers of ships and men of the army group They also moved the headquarters from Key West to the DuPont building in Miami taking advantage of its location at the southeastern corner of the U.S..[citation needed] As the war against the U-boats grew stronger more military bases sprang up in the Miami area the U.S Navy took control of Miami's docks and established air stations at the Opa-locka Airport and in Dinner Key the Air Force also set up bases in the local airports in the Miami area. Immanuel Lutheran Church, Florida has the largest collection of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in both the United States and the entire world most of which are located in the Miami metropolitan area especially Miami Beach's Art Deco District constructed as the city was becoming a resort destination a unique architectural design found only in Florida is the post-World War II Miami Modern which can be seen in areas such as Miami's MiMo Historic District. Miami major league professional sports teams 9.4 County roads Lake Worth Corridor In 2010 51.1% of the county's population was foreign born with 48.7% being naturalized American citizens Of foreign-born residents 93.0% were born in Latin America 3.2% were born in Europe 2.7% born in Asia 0.5% born in Africa 0.5% in North America and 0.1% were born in Oceania; Miami Children's Museum, Miami is featured in numerous films and television shows and video games including Miami Vice Burn Notice Jane the Virgin Scarface the Birdcage Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Several archaeological sites are known from the area occupied by the Mayaimi including Fort Center Belle Glade Big Mound City the Boynton Mounds complex and Tony's Mound. Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami (private)!
. The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project's final construction project was straightening the Kissimmee River a meandering 90-mile (140 km)-long river that was drained to make way for grazing land and agriculture the C&SF started building the C-38 canal in 1962 and the effects were seen almost immediately Waterfowl wading birds and fish disappeared prompting conservationists and sport fishers to demand the region be restored before the canal was finished in 1971 in general C&SF projects had been criticized for being temporary fixes that ignored future consequences costing billions of dollars with no end in sight After Governor Bob Graham initiated the Save Our Everglades campaign in 1983 the first section of the canal was backfilled in 1986 Graham announced that by 2000 the Everglades would be restored as closely as possible to its pre-drainage state the Kissimmee River Restoration project was approved by Congress in 1992 It is estimated that it will cost $578 million to convert only 22 miles (35 km) of the canal the entire project was to be complete by 2011 yet as of 2017 the project is "more than halfway complete" and the new completion date is 2020, R Kirk Landon Undergraduate School of Business, Talmudic University (private) The Panthers football team plays at the on-campus Riccardo Silva Stadium. The government of the City of Miami uses the mayor-commissioner type of system the city commission consists of five commissioners that are elected from single member districts the city commission constitutes the governing body with powers to pass ordinances adopt regulations and exercise all powers conferred upon the city in the city charter the mayor is elected at large and appoints a city manager the City of Miami is governed by Mayor Francis X Suarez and 5 city commissioners that oversee the five districts in the city the commission's regular meetings are held at Miami City Hall which is located at 3500 Pan American Drive on Dinner Key in the neighborhood of Coconut Grove, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Miami West Indian manatee. Photograph of large group of people on the Virginia Key Beach 1945, Mark B Rosenberg Industries: in 2005 for the employed population 16 years and older the leading industries in the Miami area were Educational services health care and social assistance which accounted for 18% and Professional scientific and management and administrative and waste management services which accounted for 13% of the population, A view of Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County. 2014 47.1% 2,801,198 48.1% 2,865,343 Geographical influences: There are many different geographic factors that affect international business These factors are: the geographical size the climatic challenges happening throughout the world the natural resources available on a specific territory the population distribution in a country etc, Several defunct airlines including Airlift International Arrow Air National Airlines and Rich International Airways were headquartered on or near the airport property. 4 Formative and sustaining processes (23.9) 75.8 Gladeview Miami Central Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church (Miami Florida) (1925), 3.1 Population The first permanent European settlers in the Miami area arrived around 1800 Pedro Fornells a Menorcan survivor of the New Smyrna colony moved to Key Biscayne to meet the terms of his Royal Grant for the island Although he returned with his family to St Augustine after six months he left a caretaker behind on the island On a trip to the island in 1803 Fornells had noted the presence of squatters on the mainland across Biscayne Bay from the island in 1825 U.S Marshal Waters Smith visited the Cape Florida Settlement (which was on the mainland) and conferred with squatters who wanted to obtain title to the land they were occupying on the mainland the Bahamian "squatters" had settled along the coast beginning in the 1790s John Egan had also received a grant from Spain during the Second Spanish Period John's son James Egan his wife Rebecca Egan his widow Mary "Polly" Lewis and Mary's brother-in-law Jonathan Lewis all received 640-acre land grants from the U.S. in present-day Miami Temple Pent and his family did not receive a land grant but nevertheless stayed in the area. 7 Florida Power and Light Co. 3,011 Radio Tower platform and pilons in front of the former building site Biscayne Boulevard Downtown's main north-south thoroughfare City of Miami Cemetery. Protestant Virginia Gardens The Miami Dolphins play at Hard Rock Stadium in suburban Miami Gardens while the Florida Panthers play in nearby Sunrise at the BB&T Center.
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