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Article: Watery clash: what happens when a key industrial waterway also becomes prime residential land? How condos and commerce are mixing--not always smoothly--on the Miami River.(the Miami River)
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- South Florida CEO
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- October 1, 2005
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Once perhaps one of the least-known industrial thorough-fares in South Florida, the Miami River has in the past few years come upon a sort of Renaissance. Boasting some of the last parcels of waterfront property in the area, suddenly it is in high demand for residential development. But what few know, or seem to, is that the Miami River is tied with Tampa as the No. 4 port in Florida, and its 32 private terminals handle more than $4 billion in cargo a year, according to Miami River Commission staff. The River is Florida's only shallow draft port--a designation that attracts the many smaller ships coming out of the Caribbean that cannot dock at the Port of Miami.
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