History
From the early 1900s to the mid-1960s, Bicentennial Park was the location of the Port of Miami, until it eventually moved to neighboring Dodge Island in the mid-1960s. The port at what is today Bicentennial Park was then a bustling cargo, trade and passenger port, with the offices of Clyde Mallory Lines at the park. Once the port moved out to Dodge Island, the land was cleaned up of industrial residue from decades of port trade, and the park was designed, finally opening up in 1976, as Downtown's second large park after Bayfront Park. The name "Bicentennial Park" signifies the bicentenary of the independence of the United States in that same year.
In May 1994, the Omni Loop of the Metromover opened which brought a Metro station to Bicentennial Park. The station has since been temporarily closed since 1996, due to lack of use. In 2010, construction began on the new Miami Art Museum in the new "Museum Park".
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