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	Miami (Florida) - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The population of Miami was 362,470 in 2000.
		Miami is the seat of Miami-Dade county, which blankets a land area of 5,040 sq km (1,946 sq mi) and is bounded by Broward County on the north, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Monroe County on the south and west, and Collier County on the west.
		Miami took its name from the Miami River, which in turn was named for a Native American term believed to mean “big water.” The Miami River empties into Biscayne Bay (an arm of the Atlantic) at the heart of what is now the central business district.
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	Visitor Information
		Miami in Florida is often reffered to as the epicenter of "cool" and is located on the south-east tip of Florida.
		Over the years, Miami’s reputation has changed from being the celebrity hangout in the fifties to the vice capital of America in the eighties.
		Miami is currently one of the ‘in places’ in American, attracting all kinds of people, all and ages and all persuassions.
	www.auburn.edu /~hatchab/visitors.html (187 words)

	Miami (Florida) - MSN Encarta
		Landmark buildings in Miami include Freedom Tower, Miami-Dade County Courthouse, and the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, an estate that includes a grand mansion built from 1914 to 1916 in the Italian Renaissance style.
		The southern end of Miami Beach, known as South Beach, consists of more than a dozen restored hotels that represent some of the best art deco architecture in the United States.
		Leading museums include the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, the Miami Museum of Science, the Miami Art Museum, and the Lowe Art Museum on the campus of the University of Miami.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557556_2/Miami_(Florida).html (1129 words)

	Terra Group still preparing Freedom Tower to give to MDC
		Miami developer Terra Group has not officially transferred ownership of the landmark Freedom Tower to Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus because company officials say more work needs to be done on the structure before the deal is closed.
		The tower is the original headquarters of the Miami News & Metropolis, which left the tower in the 1950s.
		Miami Dade College "is the proper agent for the academic and institutional standards needed for the tower," he said.
	www.miamitodaynews.com /news/061130/story7.shtml (390 words)

	Freedom Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Freedom Tower is intended to be taller than Chicago's Sears Tower and become the tallest building in the United States, and among the tallest buildings in the world when completed.
		As the tower itself rises from this cubic base, its square edges are chamfered back, transforming the square into eight tall isosceles triangles in elevation, or an elongated square antiprism.
		Emaar, the builders of the Burj Dubai tower, are keeping the final height of their building a secret, but speculation is that it will have height of over 2,600 feet (800 m) when it is finished in 2008, three to four years before Freedom Tower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freedom_Tower (2666 words)

	CNN.com - Freedom Tower to rise 1,776 feet from ashes - Dec. 20, 2003
		The Freedom Tower to be built at the site of the devastated World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan is still planned as the world's tallest building, according to a revised model unveiled Friday by the architects collaborating on its design.
		The tower's angular shape and appearance has been altered as a result of Libeskind's work with David Childs, the architect for real estate developer Larry Silverstein, the trade center leaseholder who aspires to replace all 10 million square feet of commercial space lost in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
		Freedom Tower is to rise 70 floors and be topped by wind-harvesting turbines that designers predict will provide 20 percent of the building's energy.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/Northeast/12/19/wtc.plan (768 words)

	Freedom Tower (Miami) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Freedom Tower is a building in Miami, Florida, that serves as a memorial to Cuban immigration to the United States.
		This tower is not to be confused with the Freedom Tower in New York expected to be completed in 2010 and open in 2011.
		Recently the Freedom Tower was purchased by developers Terra who wished to demolish 75 feet (23 m) of the original tower and develop 683 condominium units.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freedom_Tower_(Miami) (391 words)

	The Kenyon Review — News — Randall Mann
		Miami's Freedom Tower was modeled after the Giralda Tower, now part of the Seville Cathedral in Spain.
		Originally, the Giralda Tower was a mosque’s minaret, reflecting the Islamic culture that shaped the region before it was conquered in 1492.
		Holzer is "intrigued that the Freedom Tower echoes a building both Muslim and Christian." In response, she projected Israeli, Palestinian, Iraqi, and Syrian-American poems by Yehuda Amichai, Mahmoud Darwish, Fadhil Al-Azzawi and Mohja Kahf.
	www.kenyonreview.org /news/2-14-05.php (588 words)

	City-Guide.cc » Miami Downtown - Freedom Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Miami Freedom Tower is situated in Downtown Miami and is one of Miami’s numerous important historic landmarks.
		The Miami Freedom Tower was actually modeled on the Giralda bell tower in Seville, Spain, and was closed for a number of years whilst undergoing restorations and the Miami Freedom Tower has recently reopened as a museum of Cuban culture.
		The City of Miami known as the “Magic City” is located in Southeast Florida, in Miami-Dade County on the Miami River, between the Florida Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean.
	city-guide.cc /miami/miami-downtown-freedom-tower (260 words)

	Dade Heritage Trust \| Miami-Dade County, Florida
		They are proposing a gigantic 62-story condo, almost four times the height of the Freedom Tower, that would encompass two lots and a railroad track, demolish the back of the Tower and erase from the skyline Miami's most recognized and revered icon.
		When the foreign owners of the Freedom Tower had legal and financial troubles, the Tower was closed in 1993, then left empty and vandalized for several years.
		Before the state could purchase the Tower, the Mas family bought it for $4.2 million, saying that they would use their own funds to restore the building as a first-class Cuban museum.
	www.dadeheritagetrust.org /freedom.php (711 words)

	Conflict over Freedom Tower - SkyscraperCity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		His proposal: to shear off part of the Freedom Tower's rear, attach a glass cube to it, and wrap the slender Mediterranean shaft of the 14-story tower with 62 floors of undulating, zigzagging condo balconies spanning two city blocks.
		Miami planning director Ana Gelabert-Sánchez has endorsed the design, with one major caveat: The glass cube, meant to enclose the proposed museum, is ''inappropriate'' and should go, she wrote in recommendations to the planning board.
		``To obliterate the Freedom Tower is a sacrilege.''
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=223568 (2445 words)

	Preservation Online: Today's News Archives: Miami's Freedom Tower to be Donated to College, But City Approves Condo ...
		Miami's equivalent of Ellis Island, a 17-story tower built in 1925 that laster served as an immigration station for Cubans, will be donated to Miami Dade College, its owner announced last week.
		On Dec. 1, a day after a Cuban-American-owned developer revealed its plans to donate the Freedom Tower to the college, the city commission voted 4-1 to approve its plans to build a 62-story condo behind the National Historic Landmark.
		The Freedom Tower housed the headquarters of the Miami Daily News and Metropolis until 1957 and later became an immigration station for refugees fleeing Castro's Cuba from 1962 and 1974.
	www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/archives/arc_news_2005/120805p.htm (404 words)

	Miami : Historic Homes & Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Freedom Tower--Driving north on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami, some may be distracted by the traffic, the neon lights coming from the Bayside Marketplace, or the behemoth cruise ships docked at the port.
		But perhaps the most dramatic presence on this heavily-trafficked stretch of downtown is the Freedom Tower, 600 Biscayne Blvd. at NE 6th Street, built in 1925 and modeled after the Giralda Tower in Spain.
		Considered the Ellis Island of the Cuban Exile community, Miami's Freedom Tower has remained largely vacant over the years (the government left the building in 1974) despite hopes and unfulfilled plans to turn it into a museum reflecting its historical significance.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=17&catID=0017026610 (574 words)

	www.structural.net - Articles and technical papers
		A stately Miami tower, once a beacon of hope for more than a half-million Cuban refugees, inched toward the verge of collapse before its rescue by an immigrant family and team of restoration experts.
		Constructed as headquarters for the Miami Daily News, the 17-story tower served as a welcoming light for arriving boaters and later as a U.S. government resettlement center from 1962 until 1974.
		Due to the tower's prime downtown location, its condition and its unusual design, many feared it would be torn down and replaced by a modern structure.
	www.structural.net /News/Media_coverage/media_freedom_se_const.html (1565 words)

	Freedom Tower Repair and Strengthening
		The Freedom Tower, a Miami architectural landmark, is a seventeen-story structure erected in 1925 as an example of Spanish Renaissance revival style in South Florida.
		Its tower was modeled after the architecturally renowned Giralda Tower in Seville, Spain with the building's lower three floors creating a large footprint (approximately 15,000 sq.
		The upper floors of the tower were to become office space for the Cuban American National Foundation.
	www.structural.net /projects/job_historic_freedomtower.html (346 words)

	Miami Vacation, Miami Florida Hotel, Hotel Miami Fl, Hotel Miami Beach Florida
		The Coral Castle is one of the most exquisite and unique works of art in Miami and is made only by one man. It is entirely carved by hand and took more than twenty years to be built by moving 1,00 tons of coral rock.
		Being a cosmopolitan city Miami is provided with culinary delights from all over the world, served in some places 24 hours a day.
		Miami is popular for its “Floridian” cooking style although the typical American burgers and sandwiches are easy to find.
	www.miamihotel-site.com /Tourist (1035 words)

	Freedom Tower
		The Freedom Tower is the name given to the planned centerpiece building of the new World Trade Center, whose predecessor was destroyed in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
		When completed by 2008 or 2009, by some measurements the Freedom Tower might become the tallest building in the world, with its spire rising to a symbolic height of 1776 feet (541 m) (1776 is significant as the year of the United States Declaration of Independence).
		The Freedom Tower design has generated some controversy due to the limited number of floors (a maximum of 70) that is slated to house office space and other amenities.
	en.mcfly.org /Freedom_Tower (879 words)

	Miami Florida,Hotels,Restaurants,Shopping,Beaches,Attractions at allmiamiinfo.com
		Located in Downtown Miami is the Miami Freedom Tower, which is one of Miami’s most important historic landmarks.
		The Miami Freedom Tower was completed in 1924 and became home to the Miami Daily News.
		During the 1960’s the Freedom Tower was used as a reception center for Cuban refugees.
	www.allmiamiinfo.com /landmarks.html (645 words)

	Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
		The Freedom Tower, built in 1924 as Miami's first skyscraper, is a City landmark along busy Biscayne Boulevard.
		Located south of downtown, across the Miami River, the booming Brickell area is the City's financial district and a major employment center.
		Miami's diversity inspires dining delights in a variety of culinary styles from sophisticated to casual.
	www.gogaymiami.com /downtown.asp (449 words)

	Freedom Tower
		Freedom Tower, which is said to be Miami’s most venerated landmark, is, at this time, the center of a monumental controversy, no pun intended.
		Freedom Tower was built in the 1920’s as a home for The Miami Daily News, and in the 1960’s it served as an assistance center to tens of thousands of newly arrived exiles in the Cuban freedom flights.
		They feel that the immense size of the condominium tower itself would so overshadow the Freedom Tower that it would lose its place as a historical site.
	www.highrise-condos.com /homes/florida/miami/freedom_tower (242 words)

	Freedom Tower
		The Freedom Tower was completed in 1925 as offices and a printing facility for the Miami Daily News and Metropolis.
		From 1962 to 1974 the building was used as the Cuban Refugee Center and renamed Freedom Tower.
		The historic structure is of Mediterranean Revival Style and has a tower of 255 feet fashioned after the Giralda bell tower is Sevilla, Spain.
	www.rjha.net /freeedom_page.htm (154 words)

	Miami Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		Miami is different from any other city in America -- or any city in Latin America for that matter, even though it has a distinctly Latin flavor.
		Resting on a paved swamp between the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean, the city is subject to periodic flooding, hurricanes, and the onslaught of swallow-size mosquitoes.
		Miami has its share of the same crimes that plague any other major city.
	fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=miami@102&... (619 words)

	Owner plans to demolish part of Freedom Tower for parking
		The Terra Group is not wavering from plans to demolish parts of Miami's Freedom Tower to make way for parking at a flag-shaped development it may name Freedom Square.
		The 900,000-square-foot tower is to feature one or two restaurants and an undetermined amount of retail space, with groundbreaking planned in the first half of next year.
		It is intended that the single tower will have a ripple effect evoking a flag in the wind.
	www.miamitodaynews.com /news/050721/story4.shtml (533 words)

	Freedom Tower in Miami - Guide to Miami's Freedom Tower
		The restored Freedom Tower is often called "Miami's Ellis Island." The imposing edifice stands as an enduring symbol of freedom and the promise of the American Dream to millions.
		The tower, modeled after the Giralda bell tower on the cathedral of Seville, Spain, was built in 1925.
		Though remodeled, the Freedom Tower is largely unoccupied.
	miami.travelape.com /attractions/freedom-tower/index.html (399 words)

	Freedom Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Originally known as the Miami Daily News Tower, this 17-story building is one of the most impressive landmarks on the city's skyline.
		The building was renamed Freedom Tower during the 1960s, when it served as the Cuban Refugee Emergency Center and became a symbol of liberty for Cuban immigrants.
		Historic photograph of the Freedom Tower, circa 1934.
	www.historicpreservationmiami.com /freedom.html (121 words)

	Freedom Tower \| Miami Attraction Review
		This tower is a standard silhouette of the Miami skyline.
		Of Spanish baroque style, the octagonal tower was inspired by Giralda, an 800-year-old bell tower in Seville, Spain.
		A restoration of the exterior was completed in 1988, however in 2002, the Freedom Tower was renovated to become a Cuban American Museum.
	www.internationalcircuit.com /miami/tourism-1.php (181 words)

	Miami Travel Guide \| BookIt.com™
		While Miami is known for its beautiful beaches and fiery nights, the art scene is growing as big and bold as the city itself.
		Miami, Florida is one of the hottest vacation destinations in the World.
		Sun-filled days on the beach, first rate hotels and attractions for all ages have made Miami the place to be and be seen.
	www.bookit.com /travel_guide-m0000-Miami.html (641 words)

	Miami Beach Florida - Discount Hotels, Vacations, Resorts, Vacation Packages and Travel Guide
		Miami Beach Florida - Discount Hotels, Vacations, Resorts, Vacation Packages and Travel Guide Miami in Florida is often referred to as the epicenter of 'cool' and is located on the southeast tip of Florida.
		Also known as the "Gateway to the Americas," the 15 miles of glorious beaches make Miami a little different to other large cities and it is understandably popular with all ages, attracting a broad spectrum of tourists.
		Although Miami does not have actual offices devoted to tourism and tourist information, there are numerous useful outlets throughout Miami, providing free tourism and tourist information, tourist magazines, leaflets and general practical advice about Miami.
	www.trip2miami.com /index.htm (286 words)

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