Resolution 6974 RESOLUTION NO. 691+
WHEREAS, the present Florida East Coast Railway station in Miami_ is inadequate and
obsolete, having been constructed many years before Miami Beach became a city, and
WHEREAS, Miami Beach has been developed from an unknown, sparsely-settled village
of mangrove swamp and bay bottom mud into the world's premier year-around resort city
since the present F.E.C. station was built, and
WHEREAS, Miami Beach city administrations have attracted increasing numbers of
visitors here through a 27 year program of publicity and advertising, and
WHEREAS, in recent years this program has stimulated spring, summer and fall business,
in addition to wintertime tourist trade, and
WHEREAS, a convention bureau was created by Miami Beach city council in 1941 to
spearhead visitor business between the winter seasons and to pioneer and develop
Miami Beach as a convention community, and
WHEREAS, Miami Beach now is constructing an air-conditioned auditorium, which will
seat 4,000 persons, to augment its convention facilities, and
WHEREAS, on the basis of both population increase and new construction, Miami Beach
became the fastest growing municipality in the United States during the decade between
1930 and 1940, and
WHEREAS, Miami Beach has 356 hotels, two-thirds of which now operate 12 months of
the year, and they contain 24,359 rooms -- more than one-fourth of all the hotel rooms
in the entire state of Florida, and
WHEREAS, Miami Beach has more hotels than most of the nation's largest cities, and
WHEREAS, 50 per cent of the tourists visiting the Greater Miami area this year came
by train as compared with 44.4 per cent in 1918, according to a survey by Dr. Victor W.
Bennett and Dr. Harold A. Frey of the Department of Marketing, University of Miami, and
WHEREAS, people interviewed concerning where they stayed this year, were mainly in
the Miami Beach area, the survey showed, and 69 per cent of the visitors lived in hotels
and 18.7 per cent in apartments, and
WHEREAS, Miami Beach has approximately twice as many hotel rooms as Miami, it is
reasonable to assume that Miami Beach is the destination for the majority of the visitors
who reside in hotels in the Greater Miami area, and
WHEREAS, Miami Beach now has an estimated permanent population of approximately
40,000 and a winter population of more than 100,000, which will increase with the added
accommodations now under construction, and
WHEREAS, Miami Beach has 1,362 apartment buildings, containing 14,300 units, and 58
apartment buildings, containing 495 units, now are under construction, and
WHEREAS, the rapid growth of Miami Beach demands a new F.F.C. railroad station at a
central location convenient to the majority of Miami Beach residents and visitors near
the MacArthur and Venetian causeways, and on a direct thoroughfare to the municipal airport
and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad station,
NOff, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Miami Beach that the
City of Miami. Beach urge the Florida Railroad Commission to recommend the construction of
the new F.E.C. railroad station in the vicinity of N.E. 20th Terrace.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 22nd day of July, A. D. 1919.
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