Interama reports- 1969-1971

In 1945 Miami purchased a plot of land known as the Graves tract, which lay between the Sunny Isles causeway and N.E. 136th Street, and between U.S. 1 and the Intracoastal Waterway. The land was originally acquired for an airport, but when Miami International Airport was built at its present location, the land was designated for Interama.

Interama (Inter-American Center Authority) was created in 1951 to plan, finance, construct, operate, and maintain an Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center. The proposed center was to have been a permanent international exposition providing cultural, educational and trade activities similar to those of a world's fair. By the mid-1970s attempts to raise money for development had failed. In 1975, the Authority was abolished, and Interama was not completed. The land came to be used for Florida International University, a sewage treatment plant, Munisport landfill, the Oleta River Preserve, and private development.