. 2.2 Choice of entry mode in international business Downtown Miami seen from the Rusty Pelican restaurant on Virginia Key. Education households income and poverty Main article: Geography of Florida, Miami is the home of many college sports teams the two largest are the University of Miami Hurricanes whose football team formerly played at the Miami Orange Bowl from 1937 until 2008 moving to Sun Life Stadium subsequently and Florida International University Panthers whose football team plays at FIU Stadium, The South Florida recording industry started in Miami in the 1950s with Criteria Studios recording top selling albums such as Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and Hotel California by the Eagles Local music entrepreneur Henry Stone and his label TK Records created the local indie scene in the 1970s T K Records produced the R&B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright George McCrae and Jimmy "Bo" Horne as well as a number of minor soul and disco hits many influenced by Caribbean music Tom Dowd an innovator in music engineering worked out of Miami for many years and worked with a plethora of artists including Aretha Franklin Ray Charles Eric Clapton Lynyrd Skynyrd Tom Petty also came out of South Florida. Florida Heartland 7.1 Kissimmee River 2 Twentieth century 1960 1,497,099 115.8% Political risk, Tri-Rail also services the county The IIF was able to invest in development projects due to Disston's purchase and an opportunity to improve transportation arose when oil tycoon Henry Flagler began purchasing land and building rail lines along the east coast of Florida as far south as Palm Beach in 1893 Along the way he built resort hotels transforming territorial outposts into tourist destinations the land bordering the rail lines was developed as citrus farms by 1896 the rail line had been extended to Biscayne Bay Three months after the first train had arrived the residents of Miami voted to incorporate the town Miami became a prime destination for extremely wealthy people after the Royal Palm Hotel was opened. After closing Bay Visa Housing to students and long-term leasing the facility to RCL for employee training FIU is developing BayView Student Housing on the BBC campus BBC's first on-campus new housing in 30+ years will house 408 students in a high rise overlooking Biscayne Bay. The Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League play at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Main articles: Atlantic world and Atlantic history 4 Governance Today Miami is home to a vibrant techno and dance scene and hosts the Winter Music Conference the largest dance event in the world Ultra Music Festival and many electronica music-themed celebrations and festivals Currently the EDM subgenres popular in South Florida are deep house hech House and techno.
The Crossings As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 16.0% of Florida's population which includes African Americans Out of the 16.0% 4.0% (741,879) were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American During the early 1900s black people made up nearly half of the state's population in response to segregation disfranchisement and agricultural depression many African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the Great Migration in waves from 1910 to 1940 and again starting in the later 1940s They moved for jobs better education for their children and the chance to vote and participate in society by 1960 the proportion of African Americans in the state had declined to 18% Conversely large numbers of northern whites moved to the state.[citation needed] Today large concentrations of black residents can be found in northern and central Florida Aside from blacks descended from African slaves brought to the southern U.S. there are also large numbers of blacks of West Indian recent African and Afro-Latino immigrant origins especially in the Miami/South Florida area, In television and entertainment Concourse C opened as Concourse 6 in 1959 serving Eastern Air Lines During the mid-1960s Concourse C received an extension of its second floor and was equipped with air conditioning Since then it did not receive any major interior modifications or renovations Following the renumbering of gates and concourses in the 1970s Concourse C had Gates C1 to C10 the opening of an international arrivals hall in Concourse B during the 1980s saw Gate C1 receive the ability to process international arrivals. . All streets and avenues in Miami-Dade County follow the Miami grid with a few exceptions most notably in Coral Gables Hialeah Coconut Grove and Miami Beach One neighborhood the Roads is named as such because its streets run off the Miami grid at a 45-degree angle and therefore are all named roads, Dr Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall - District 2, 4.1 Student Clubs and Organizations (18.6) 59.5 Tropical Park. . . . Dade County Courthouse completed in 1926 7 Further reading 1.4 1980s to 1990s She tried to persuade railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line the Florida East Coast Railway southward to the area but he initially declined in December 1894 Florida was struck by a freeze that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state a few months later on the night of February 7 1895 the northern part of Florida was hit by another freeze that wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees Unlike most of the rest of the state the Miami area was unaffected Tuttle wrote to Flagler again asking him to visit the area and to see it for himself Flagler sent James E Ingraham to investigate and he returned with a favorable report and a box of orange blossoms to show that the area had escaped the frost Flagler followed up with his own visit and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel.
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