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Joe's opened on Miami Beach in 1913, before the causeway, and built itself around a shellfish nobody was eating: the stone crab, whose claws regrow, served chilled with mustard sauce. It closes for the summer when the season shuts and takes no reservations, which has not thinned the queue in a century.

The Magic Kingdom and its Florida resort opened to the public near Orlando, realizing Walt Disney's vision for a second, larger theme park.

At over 360 meters long and 225,282 gross tons, Oasis of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built when she left Port Everglades on December 5, 2009. Built by STX Europe in Turku, Finland, for Royal Caribbean International, she introduced the industry's first open-air "neighborhood" ship design.

Zaha Hadid Architects' exoskeleton-clad One Thousand Museum tower finished construction on Miami's Biscayne Boulevard, one of the late architect's last works.

Jon and Mary Kate Walker open a seafood market and restaurant in Safety Harbor, Florida, built on very fresh fish cooked simply.

Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever built, entered service out of Miami after roughly two and a half years of construction in Finland.

A University of Miami-led study using satellite radar found dozens of Miami high-rises, including some under construction, are subsiding by millimetres a year.

DAMAC International broke ground on The Delmore, a Zaha Hadid Architects-designed condo tower replacing the collapsed Champlain Towers South, with far fewer, far pricier units than before.

Miami-Dade's first bus rapid transit service runs 20 miles along US-1 from Dadeland South to Florida City on a rebuilt dedicated busway protected by gate arms and prioritised at rush hour, calling at 14 new BRT stations with air-conditioned waiting areas. The county calls it the longest all-electric BRT service in the nation, paid for with $100 million each from its half-penny transportation surtax, the Florida Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration.

Co-chefs Sachi Statz and Victor Santos, from the family's Tinta y Café, open a Cuban-French bistro in Miami's Little Havana.

Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.

Inter Miami played its first match at the 26,700-seat Nu Stadium, the centrepiece of the 131-acre Miami Freedom Park built on the former Melreese golf course beside Miami International Airport, drawing 2-2 with Austin FC. The club had played out of Fort Lauderdale since 2020 while the site was fought over and built.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in Tampa on 1 September 2026, across nearly 50 square miles from Westshore to East Tampa and Hyde Park to Temple Crest.

21 Air Flight 7598, a 32-year-old Boeing 767 freighter flying for Amazon Air from San Juan, overran runway 30 on landing at Miami International Airport and struck a van of airline cleaning workers and an SUV; five people on the ground died.

NVIDIA and Palantir pair custom Nemotron open models with Palantir's Ontology, Foundry and AIP to run NVIDIA's own supply chain, securing the 1.3 million parts in each Vera Rubin rack, and offer the stack to other industries.

SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to Low Earth Orbit. The booster is due to land at Landing Zone 40.

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences Miami - nine stacked and cantilevered glass cubes holding nearly 100 storeys of condominiums and a 205-room hotel - is expected to reach its full 1,049 feet, making it the tallest building in Florida and the southern United States. Its superstructure passed level 85 and started the ninth and final cube in August 2026; delivery of the finished tower is set for 2028.

The temporary circuit laid out around Hard Rock Stadium hosts the first of three United States rounds.

The National Hurricane Center's official Atlantic season runs from 1 June to 30 November, the six months in which almost all basin activity falls. An average season brings 14 named storms.

MIA is building a three-level Concourse K with six domestic gates, new baggage handling, a ground support equipment maintenance facility and airfield work, the first new concourse of its $9 billion modernisation programme. Construction broke ground in mid-2025.

On 20 September 2026 Kalshi’s moon-landing market priced a crewed NASA landing at 1.3% before 2027, 2.3% before 2028, 13% before 2029 and 44% before 2030 — putting the largest single year of probability, about 31 points, on 2029. The companion market had the United States as the next country to do it at 55%, with China at 28%.