Welcome to the Mayor's Economic Summit.
Today marks the first step in our collective effort to assure economic prosperity for all.
This community didn't have the luxury of an Economic Summit 100 years ago when the metropolis we have today was wild hammock and pineland, clear rivers and wide bay. At the turn of the century our only residents lived along a sliver of habitable coastal land atop a limestone ridge no wider than five miles. William Brickell's rustic trading post at the mouth of the Miami River. But, within a few short years our destiny was shaped by Flagler's railroad and the construction of the Royal Palm, our first luxury hotel at the banks of the Miami River. Now, on the brink of a new century, and in fact, a new millennium, we are again a community at a crossroad.