In March 1980 the first black Dade County schools superintendent Dr Johnny L Jones was convicted on grand theft charges linked to gold-plated plumbing His conviction was overturned on appeal and on July 3 1986 the state attorney Janet Reno announced that Jones would not be retried on these charges However in a separate case he was convicted on misdemeanor charges of soliciting perjury and witness tampering and received a two-year jail sentence, Miami Florida Business directory. 1930 214,830 222.8% Ronald Reagan House 2001, The metropolis also has four seaports the largest and most important being the Port of Miami Others in the area include Port Everglades Port of Palm Beach and the Miami River Port on August 21 2012 PortMiami and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers signed the Partnership Agreement (PPA) construction agreement that will allow the Deep Dredge project to go out for bid the Deep Dredge will deepen the Port's existing channels to minus 50/52 feet to prepare for the Panama Canal expansion now scheduled for completion in early 2015 PortMiami's deeper channel will provide ships with an economically efficient reliable and safe navigational route into the Port PortMiami will be the only U.S Port south of Norfolk Virginia to be at the minus 50 foot depth in sync with the opening of the expanded Canal Deep Dredge is expected to create more than 30,000 direct indirect and induced jobs in Florida and allow the Port to meet its goal to double its cargo traffic over the next decade; 4.2 Tourism and conventions The South Terminal consists of two concourses H and J with a combined total of 28 gates.
Although the Big Cypress is the largest growth of cypress swamps in South Florida cypress swamps can be found near the Atlantic Coastal Ridge and between Lake Okeechobee and the Eastern flatwoods as well as in sawgrass marshes Cypresses are deciduous conifers that are uniquely adapted to thrive in flooded conditions with buttressed trunks and root projections that protrude out of the water called "knees" Bald cypress trees grow in formations with the tallest and thickest trunks in the center rooted in the deepest peat As the peat thins out cypresses grow smaller and thinner giving the small forest the appearance of a dome from the outside They also grow in strands slightly elevated on a ridge of limestone bordered on either side by sloughs Other hardwood trees can be found in cypress domes such as red maple swamp bay and pop ash If cypresses are removed the hardwoods take over and the ecosystem is recategorized as a mixed swamp forest, 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. Central Baptist Church (Built in 1925) Turkey Turkey Ziff Education Building 1995 During the mid-1930s the Art Deco district of Miami Beach was developed Also during this time on February 15 1933 an assassination attempt was made on President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt While Roosevelt was giving a speech in Miami's Bayfront Park Giuseppe Zangara an Italian anarchist opened fire Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago who was shaking hands with Roosevelt was shot and died two weeks later Four other people were wounded but President-elect Roosevelt was not harmed Zangara was quickly tried for Cermak's murder and was executed by the electric chair on March 20 1933 in Raiford Florida. . Metrorail: During the mid-2000s the city witnessed its largest real estate boom since the Florida land boom of the 1920s and the city had well over a hundred approved high-rise construction projects However only 50 were actually built Rapid high-rise construction led to fast population growth in the Miami's inner neighborhoods with Downtown Brickell and Edgewater becoming the fastest-growing areas of the city Miami's skyline is ranked third-most impressive in the U.S. behind New York City and Chicago and 19th in the world according to the Almanac of Architecture and Design the city currently has the seven tallest (as well as fifteen of top twenty) skyscrapers in the state of Florida with the tallest being the 868-foot (265 m) Panorama Tower. . In the background were the well-publicized extensions of the Florida East Coast Railway first to West Palm Beach (1894) then Miami (1896) and finally Key West 1912 the Everglades were being drained creating new dry land Finally World War I cut off the rich from their seasons on the French Riviera so a part of the U.S with a Mediterranean climate had a lot of possibilities.
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