. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management The founders located the campus on the site of the original Tamiami Airport (not related to the later Kendall-Tamiami Airport) on the Tamiami Trail (U.S Route 41) between Southwest 107th and 117th Avenues just east of where the West Dade Expressway (now the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike) was being planned the abandoned airport's air traffic control tower became FIU's first building it originally had no telephones no drinking water and no furniture Perry decided that the tower should never be destroyed and it remains on campus where it is now known variously as the "Veterans Office," "Ivory Tower," the "Tower Building," or the "Public Safety Tower," and is the former location of the FIU Police Department.
. Miami's port as seen from Miami Beach Florida in December 2007 with seven cruise ships docked! Invasive species A Miami-Dade police car, The partition of Florida as proposed by Resolution No 203-14-14297 of the City of South Miami Mayor and City Commission. At the same time mercury was found in local fish at such high levels that consumption warnings were posted for fishermen a Florida panther was found dead with levels of mercury high enough to kill a human Scientists found that power plants and incinerators using fossil fuels were expelling mercury into the atmosphere and it fell as rain or dust during droughts the naturally occurring bacteria that reduce sulfur in the Everglades ecosystem were transforming the mercury into methylmercury and it was bioaccumulating through the food chain Stricter emissions standards helped lower mercury coming from power plants and incinerators which in turn lowered mercury levels found in animals though they continue to be a concern. 18 Lauderhill Broward 57,585 66,887 72,094 +7.78% Agriculture and fishing 14 Notes, Politics 12 Sports Bal Harbour Shops, 5.7 Government 4.2.2 Voter registration population 2010. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 brought 150,000 Cubans to Miami the largest transport in civilian history Unlike the previous exodus of the 1960s most of the Cuban refugees arriving were poor some having been released from prisons or mental institutions to make the trip During this time many of the middle class non-Hispanic whites in the community left the city often referred to as the "white flight" in 1960 Miami was 90% non-Hispanic white but by 1990 it was only about 10% non-Hispanic white, Tri-Rail Downtown Miami Link (opens Q3 2019).
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