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. Population In July 2011 Downtown's office vacancy rate was reported at 21% dropping from a high of 26% in mid-2010 Downtown also reported an average commercial asking rate of $36.33 making it the eighth-highest in the nation after Manhattan Washington DC Fairfield County Connecticut San Francisco and Boston. Economy This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (July 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). PortMiami is the world's busiest cruise ship port and is headquarters to many of the world's largest cruise companies From left to right: Hapag-Lloyd Europa Norwegian Sky Oceania Nautica Carnival Valor Carnival Imagination Carnival Liberty Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas MV Explorer, Top private employers The City of Miami Fire and Rescue Department operates 4 of its 14 fire stations within the Downtown area Each are listed below, There have also been plans to build a soccer-specific stadium at PortMiami the plans were proposed by a group led by David Beckham seeking to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami the group has stated that they would fund such a stadium privately but there has been opposition on multiple grounds including the added traffic to downtown Miami and the impact on wildlife.

1920 66,542 280.0% Pompano Beach Airpark PPM KPMP Broward Although scientists made headway in decreasing mercury and phosphorus levels in water the natural environment of South Florida continued to decline in the 1990s and life in nearby cities reflected this downturn to address the deterioration of the Miami metropolitan area Governor Lawton Chiles commissioned a report on the sustainability of the area in 1995 Chiles published the commission's findings in a report that related the degradation of the Everglades ecosystems to the lower quality of life in urban areas the report noted past environmental abuses that brought the state to a position to make a decision Not acting to improve the South Florida ecosystem the report predicted would inevitably cause further and intolerable deterioration that would harm local tourism by 12,000 jobs and $200 million annually and commercial fishing by 3,300 jobs and $52 million annually Urban areas had grown beyond their capacities to sustain themselves Crowded cities were facing problems such as high crime rates traffic jams severely overcrowded schools and overtaxed public services; the report noted that water shortages were ironic given the 53 inches (130 cm) of rain the region received annually, Further information: Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department Greater Miami is served by several English-language and two major Spanish-language daily newspapers the Miami Herald headquartered in Downtown Miami is Miami's primary newspaper with over a million readers it also has news bureaus in Broward County Monroe County and Nassau Bahamas the South Florida Sun-Sentinel circulates primarily in Broward and southern Palm Beach counties and also has a news bureau in Havana Cuba the Palm Beach Post serves mainly Palm Beach County especially the central and northern regions and the Treasure Coast the Boca Raton News publishes five days a week and circulates in southern Palm Beach County El Nuevo Herald a subsidiary of the Miami Herald and Diario Las Americas are Spanish-language daily papers that circulate mainly in Miami-Dade County La Palma and El Sentinel are weekly Spanish newspapers published by the Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel respectively and circulate in the same areas as their English-language counterparts. 6 References Water No country that I have ever heard of bears any resemblance to it; it seems like a vast sea filled with grass and green trees and expressly intended as a retreat for the rascally Indian from which the white man would never seek to drive them. . In 2009 fishing was a $6 billion industry employing 60,000 jobs for sports and commercial purposes. In 2008 the North Lauderdale City Commission passed a resolution calling for a new state of South Florida to be formed from Palm Beach Broward Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties; As of 2010 those of Hispanic or Latino ancestry accounted for 22.5% (4,223,806) of Florida's population Out of the 22.5% the largest groups were 6.5% (1,213,438) Cuban 4.5% (847,550) Puerto Rican 3.3% (629,718) Mexican and 1.6% (300,414) Colombian Florida's Hispanic population includes large communities of Cuban Americans in Miami and Tampa Puerto Ricans in Orlando and Tampa and Mexican/Central American migrant workers the Hispanic community continues to grow more affluent and mobile as of 2011 57.0% of Florida's children under the age of 1 belonged to minority groups Florida has a large and diverse Hispanic population with Cubans and Puerto Ricans being the largest groups in the state Nearly 80% of Cuban Americans live in Florida especially South Florida where there is a long-standing and affluent Cuban community Florida has the second largest Puerto Rican population after New York as well as the fastest-growing in the nation Puerto Ricans are more widespread throughout the state though the heaviest concentrations are in the Orlando area of Central Florida, Elsa Murano Tampa TPA Tampa International Airport Large Hub 9,548,580, 5.4 Cypress Fort Lauderdale 165,521 152,397 Broward Independence 7,214 0.50%. The Restudy came with a plan to stop the declining environmental quality and this proposal was to be the most expensive and comprehensive ecological repair project in history the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) proposed more than 60 construction projects over 30 years to store water that was being flushed into the ocean in reservoirs underground aquifers and abandoned quarries; add more Stormwater Treatment Areas to filter water that flowed into the lower Everglades; regulate water released from pumping stations into local waterways and improve water released to Everglades National Park and Water Conservation Areas; remove barriers to sheetflow by raising the Tamiami Trail and destroying the Miami Canal and reuse wastewater for urban areas the cost estimate for the entire plan was $7.8 billion and in a bipartisan show of cooperation CERP was voted through Congress with an overwhelming margin it was signed by President Bill Clinton on December 11 2000.