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New jobs and development are coming to one of Miami-Dade's neediest neighborhoods. A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Liberty City for the construction of the Poinciana Biopharmaceutical Park. Scheduled to open in 2006, the site will host the new headquarters of MediVector Biopharmaceutical Centers, as well as the Carrie Meek Biopharmaceutical Institute, "a non-profit educational institution with the mission of creating and coordinating a specialized supplemental curriculum in biopharmaceutical technology courses in conjunction with institutions of higher education." An estimated 1500 jobs are expected to be created within five years.

Also to be included in the complex is retail space, housing, and a Jackson Memorial Hospital clinic. Miami-Dade College graduates from the area are expected to fill many of the positions that become available, and a training facility will be on site.

More info: http://www.mdc.edu/Home/Press/LIBERTY.htm

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Miami-Dade County recently launched a new website to track the progress of the "Building Better Communities" General Obligation Bond, passed by county voters in November 2004.

The site is divided into seven categories, for each of the varying types of projects that will be financed with these monies. Projects include: improvements to county stormwater drainage systems, improvements and upgrades to parks, restoration of historic and civic buildings, funding to improve cultural venues, bridge improvements, new sidewalks, bikepaths, upgrading and restoring public safety facilities, upgrading public medical facilities and expanding emergency coverage, convention center expansion, and business development packages.

More details, including the dollar amounts alloted for each project can be found here:

http://www.miamidade.gov/Build/

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Thanks to a missing commissioner, the Florida City annexation veto has been overridden. This is the land that is outside the UDB and already is in contract to be sold to Lennar for development.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11952081.htm

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The South Dade area of Cutler Ridge has been given approval for cityhood.

Next step will be a local vote.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/11952086.htm

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Looks like Opus has effectively been nixed. FDOT has acquired the lands between I-395 and the Performing Arts Center. Opus would have been built on the farthest eastern parcel.

So what leaves me curious is if they still plan to build a trenched highway or an elevated viaduct. My concern with the former is street flooding, especially given the heavy rainfall we've been receiving this year. One place where it never seems to flood is on the expressways, which tend to be built at least a foot above above grade.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12015054.htm

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Buildout is looming in developable parts of Palm Beach County, which now faces pressures from developers to open up more western agricultural land for sprawling development. It remains to be seen in the county will burden its infrastructure and permit more development or continue encouraging denser growth to the east. Also, it's yet to be determined what impacts Scripps will have on surrounding areas.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/sou...-home-headlines

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Interesting... I hadn't realized that so many 911 calls now come from cell phones... that basically renders the Enhanced 911 (E-911) with that address tracing useless. This new service sounds like a neat system that hopefully will improve response times.

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Florida International University has been lobbying the state to approve a new medical school for South Florida. If approved, it would become the first and only public medical school in Miami, currently the largest metropolitan area in the country without one. FIU recently received provisional accreditation for its newly-opened law school and graduated its first class.

A hearing will be held in November, where arguments will be heard from both FIU and UCF, which is also seeking a facility.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/12182890.htm

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/mia...sfla-news-miami

FIU's Health Initiatives website has additional information.

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The city of Doral wishes to regain control over the zoning of a one square-mile area within the city limits. As part of the 2003 incorporation agreement with Miami-Dade County, the new city had allow the county to retain zoning control over this area. The county had planned to slate that area for a mixed-used traditional neighborhood development (TND). Now residents will vote to amend the city's charter to regain zoning control over that area. So far the city has not expressed objection to this TND.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/...al/12166689.htm

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Miami-Dade Fire-Rescue was ranked among the busiest fire-rescue departments in the country. It ranked 9th in combined fire and rescue calls.

Of the national rankings it received, MDFR also has the:

6th busiest engine company

11th busiest high ladder

20th busiest fire station

20th busiest HAZ-MAT unit

22nd busiest rescue/ambulance service

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12240792.htm

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Three unincorporated neighborhoods in central Broward County will soon be annexed into the city of Oakland Park. The area encompasses 10 square miles and has about 10,000 residents. The city's population would total about 41,000 residents.

The Florida Legislature has set a deadline for Broward's remaining unincorporated residents to be annexed into neighboring municipalities by October of this year. Any lands not annexed by this date will be forcibly annexed.

There remain several small pockets of unincorporated territory scattered throughout the county (about 24 square miles worth). With the creation of the city of West Park in 2004, all populated territory between between the Broward/Dade line and Sheridan Street is now incorporated. Between Oakland Park Blvd to NW 62nd Street in Fort Lauderdale, only two enclaves remain, one of which could be annexed into Oakland Park or Tamarac (Oakland Park would be a better fit), and the other one could join Fort Lauderdale or Tamarac (Fort Lauderdale makes a whole lot more sense geographically).

Areas such as Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, several county landfills and parks, etc., will remain unincorporated.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/bro...ews-browardcomm

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Micheal Mann to focus on the highrise downtown area of Miami this go around. The "Miami Vice" will have a more complicated, urbane feel to it, reflecting Miami's new lifestyle.

Between shoots of a nighttime gunfight on the Miami River last week, Mann said he sees Miami as a far more cosmopolitan, affluent and sophisticated place than the city he found 20 years ago -- one he looks back on as ``Des Moines, Iowa, on the water.''

Now, ''it's the new architecture. A lot of Chad Oppenheim's stuff,'' Mann said, referring to the architect behind a group of stylish, ultra-modern condominium towers being built as part of downtown Miami's unprecedented building boom. ``That idea of Miami is just really exciting.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12330479.htm

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New demographic data for the counties was released by the census.

Miami-Dade was 60% hispanic, 21% black, 19% white non-hispanic in 2004.

Broward is probably already minority-majority. It was 51% white non-hispanic, 25% black, and 21% hispanic in 2004. It was 58% white non-hispanic in 2000.

Broward is quickly becoming the new Dade.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12354494.htm

Broward's future is 'minority majority'

Lured by sunshine, jobs and palm trees, more blacks migrated to Broward last year than to any other county in the United States.

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A bad day to arrive at the airport yesterday. MIA and airports nationwide experienced delays because of a computer crash. U.S. Customs was unable to check in passengers after their systems went t down around 6pm last night. It wasn't back up until late evening, leaving thousands of passengers just waiting and waiting.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/12424329.htm

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