. ! . (21.6) 74.0 I-595.svg Interstate 595 (Port Everglades Expressway), (28.8) 82.8 Downtown is also home to many international chambers of commerce these include:. 7.1 Human origin The site of the campus was originally used for a general aviation airport called Tamiami Airport (not to be confused with Kendall-Tamiami Airport) which was in operation from the 1940s until 1967 the airport had three runways and was used for pilot training among other purposes Construction on the FIU campus began in 1965 and the airport closed in 1969 At the time very little was located around FIU and the campus was called University Park as Miami grew west the area came to be known as University Park after the university's campus name, Miami Florida Business directory, In 2011 there were about 9,000 retail gas stations in the state Floridians consumed 21 million gallons of gasoline daily in 2011 ranking it third in national use behind California and Texas Motorists have the 45th lowest rate of car insurance in the U.S 24% are uninsured.
Following Hurricane Andrew in 1992 Dade County was commended for its speed at rebuilding and reopening schools Most schools reopened within two weeks of the storm and students who attended schools that had been completely destroyed were quickly displaced with free and efficient bus transportation the district also used funding from the disaster to redo its entire curriculum adding sex education to elementary schools and foreign language programs to middle schools it opened fully funded magnet schools such as Coral Reef High School and Southwood Middle School which take in students from all over the county based on school performance (some schools are partial magnets which also enroll students from surrounding neighborhoods while some are full magnets that only take students based on merit) the district also re-opened Coral Way Elementary as its first bilingual school which teaches its curriculum in both English and Spanish, Moss School of Construction Infrastructure and Sustainability, Main article: Government of Miami-Dade County HistoryMiami Downtown Miami. . Much of the coast and the inner estuaries are built of mangroves; there is no border between the coastal marshes and the bay Thus the marine ecosystems in Florida Bay are considered to be a part of the Everglades watershed and one of the ecosystems connected to and affected by the Everglades as a whole More than 800 square miles (2,100 km2) of Florida Bay is protected by Everglades National Park representing the largest body of water in the park boundaries There are approximately 100 keys in Florida Bay many of which are mangrove forests the fresh water coming into Florida Bay from the Everglades creates perfect conditions for vast beds of turtle grass and algae formations that are the foundation for animal life in the bay Sea turtles and manatees eat the grass while invertebrate animals such as worms clams and other mollusks eat the algae formations and microscopic plankton Female sea turtles return annually to nest on the shore and manatees spend the winter months in the warmer water of the bay Sea grasses also serve to stabilize the sea beds and protect shorelines from erosion by absorbing energy from waves! One of the Cape Canaveral launch sites during the launch of SpaceX CRS-13 in 2017. (35) 51.13 A 2007 survey by geographers Ary J Lamme and Raymond K Oldakowski found that the "Glades" has emerged as a distinct vernacular region of Florida it comprises the interior areas and southernmost Gulf Coast of South Florida largely corresponding to the Everglades itself It is one of the most sparsely populated areas of the state. Park West is the neighborhood just west of Museum Park east of NW 1st Ave south of I-195 and north of NE 6th St Park West was primarily known for its nightclubs and in recent years has been the talk of much revitalization and project proposals for the revitalization of the area By the end of 2015 most of the nightclubs along the former club row west of the MetroMover from the Freedom Tower station to the Eleventh Street Station have been demolished to make way for planned construction of Miami World Center Park West is directly served by the Miami Metrorail at: Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Station and by three Metromover stations on the Omni Loop. . .
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