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Miami Florida Business directory (19.2) 68.6 1 7860 Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (32.7) 91.9 2 7859. Aventura Mall International campuses The Stephen P Clark Government Center in Downtown Miami is the headquarters of the Miami-Dade County government. Forbes's 2015 Ranking of America's Best Colleges: ranked Barry University 615th on their list of America's Top Colleges, 15 External links Miami Florida Business directory 7 Restoration Downtown Miami. The mouth of the Miami River at Brickell Key The Everglades hosts 1,392 exotic plant species actively reproducing in the region outnumbering the 1,301 species considered native to South Florida the melaleuca tree (Melaleuca quinquenervia) takes water in greater amounts than other trees Melaleucas grow taller and more densely in the Everglades than in their native Australia making them unsuitable as nesting areas for birds with wide wingspans They also choke out native vegetation More than $2 million has been spent on keeping them out of Everglades National Park. Main article: Government of Miami-Dade County FIU MUN also hosts an annual high school conference: Florida International Model United Nations (FIMUN) the conference traditionally hosts over 400 high school students from 20 or more high schools from Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach Counties. . . 3.7.1 Green Library, FIU also has other smaller regional centers located throughout South Florida in both Miami-Dade County and Broward County serving the local communities in research continuing studies and in culture in Broward County there is the FIU Pines Center in Pembroke Pines opened to satisfy the demand from Broward County residents This center serves mostly night students in programs within the College of Business Administration in Miami-Dade County there are four regional FIU facilities the Downtown Miami Center the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach (Washington Avenue and 10th St) the FIU-Florida Memorial research center in Miami Gardens and a research site in Homestead, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue is also the home to Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1 as well as EMS operations consisting of 57 Advanced Life Support units staffed by 760 state-certified paramedics and 640 state-certified emergency medical technicians.

There were 867,352 households out of which 30.61% had children under the age of 18 living with them 43.8% were married couples living together 18.79% had a female householder with no husband present and 30.49% were non-families 23.55% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.38% (2.52% male and 5.86% female) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older the average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.33. . Miami's main four sports teams are the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball and the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League Starting 2020 the city will be home to Inter Miami CF of the Major League Soccer led by David Beckham Simon Fuller and Marcelo Claure the Miami Open an annual tennis tournament was previously held in Key Biscayne before moving to Hard Rock Stadium after the tournament was purchased by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross in 2019 the city is home to numerous greyhound racing tracks marinas jai alai venues and golf courses the city streets have hosted professional auto races in the past most notably the open-wheel Grand Prix of Miami and the sports car Grand Prix of Miami the Homestead-Miami Speedway oval hosts NASCAR races, According to Hymer there are two main determinants of FDI; where an imperfect market structure is the key element the first is the firm-specific advantages which are developed at the specific companies home country and profitably used in the foreign country the second determinant is the removal of control where Hymer wrote: "When firms are interconnected they compete in selling in the same market or one of the firms may sell to the other," and because of this "it may be profitable to substitute centralized decision-making for decentralized decision-making", In 1817 Andrew Jackson invaded Florida to hasten its annexation to the United States in what became known as the First Seminole War After Florida became a U.S territory in 1821 conflicts between settlers and the Seminole increased as the former tried to acquire lands the Second Seminole War lasted from 1835 to 1842 and afterward the US forcibly removed about 3,000 Seminole and 800 Black Seminole to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) west of the Mississippi River Many others died in the war Conflict broke out again in the Third Seminole War from 1855 to 1859 when a few hundred Seminole fought off US forces from the swamps of the Everglades the US finally decided to leave them alone as they could not dislodge them even after this protracted and expensive warfare. . Concourse G The Venetian Causeway (left) and MacArthur Causeway (right) connect Downtown and South Beach Miami Beach, Miami Florida Business directory, 4.4 Sargasso Sea Main article: Transportation in South Florida! NFL football player, Brickell Park Brickell Downtown Miami is the historic heart of Miami and along with Coconut Grove is the oldest settled area of Miami with early pioneer settlement dating to the early 19th century Urban development began in the 1890s with the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway by Standard Oil industrialist Henry Flagler down to Miami at the insistence of Julia Tuttle Flagler along with developers such as William Brickell and George E Merrick helped bring developer interest to the city with the construction of hotels resorts homes and the extension of Flagler's rail line Flagler Street originating in Downtown is a major east-west road in Miami named after the tycoon; the Julia Tuttle Causeway crossing Biscayne Bay just north of Downtown in Edgewater is named in honor of Tuttle. Young Women's Preparatory School all-girls, 3 See also Tri-Rail Downtown Miami Link (opens Q3 2019) Class of 2001.