The Miami airport is a city today. A mall, too. And a train hub. While Broward’s airport isn’t as large, it can be a maze, too, with stores, restaurants and multiple terminals. But it wasn’t ...

The last scheduled flight out of the airport was on Aug. 9, 1945. The city of Miami purchased the land and the building from Pan Am in 1946 and converted the terminal into City Hall in 1954.