See also: List of U.S states by GDP Class of 2004 The Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball play at Marlins Park in Little Havana. . Miami International Airport (MIA) and PortMiami are among the nation's busiest ports of entry especially for cargo from South America and the Caribbean PortMiami is the world's busiest cruise port and MIA is the busiest airport in Florida and the largest gateway between the United States and Latin America Due to its strength in international business finance and trade the city has among the largest concentration of international banks in the country primarily along Brickell Avenue in Brickell Miami's financial district Miami was the host city of the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations. Located five blocks north of University Park is the 38-acre (145,000 m2) Engineering Center which houses a part of the College of Engineering and Computing and is the home of FIU's Motorola Nanofabrication Research Facility the Engineering Center is serviced by the CATS Shuttle FIU's student buses which run throughout the day on weekdays connecting the two parts of campus, Concourse D Main article: Florida Bay Students Florida U.S Census. ; .
The Miami Marlins and St Louis Cardinals conduct spring training in Jupiter at Roger Dean Stadium, 5 8769, An understanding helps one decide what governmental policies to support. Emmy-winning television journalist and presenter The British governors were directed to call general assemblies as soon as possible in order to make laws for the Floridas and in the meantime they were with the advice of councils to establish courts This was the first introduction of the English-derived legal system which Florida still has today including trial by jury habeas corpus and county-based government Neither East Florida nor West Florida sent any representatives to Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence Florida remained a Loyalist stronghold for the duration of the American Revolution. . 4.3 Fire 15 See also Migrants to the region who wanted to develop plantations first proposed draining the Everglades in 1848 but no work of this type was attempted until 1882 Canals were constructed throughout the first half of the 20th century and spurred the South Florida economy prompting land development in 1947 Congress formed the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project which built 1,400 miles (2,300 km) of canals levees and water control devices the Miami metropolitan area grew substantially at this time and Everglades water was diverted to cities Portions of the Everglades were transformed into farmland where the primary crop was sugarcane Approximately 50 percent of the original Everglades has been developed as agricultural or urban areas. . See also: Sport in Miami, Corrections department Mike Lowell First Coast. Stocker AstroScience Center 2013 FIU has six libraries Green Library FIU's main library; the Glenn Hubert Library (Biscayne Bay Campus) the Wolfsonian Library the Engineering Library the Law Library and the Medical Library the Green Library Hubert Library and Engineering Library Service Center are under the direction of the Dean of University Libraries Other libraries are overseen by their appropriate schools or organizations.
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