February 28, 2007
Miami unveils Marlins stadium design, price tag
Miami officials yesterday revealed some details of the latest plans for a new downtown stadium for the Florida Marlins:
- The stadium would seat a relatively tiny 37,000 on a relatively tiny nine-acre footprint, which would be a neat trick given that it will need room to support a retractable roof.
- Cost would be $490 million, of which the team would pay $207 million ($45 million now, the rest in future rent payments), with the county spending $145 million and the city $108 million. That leaves the same $30 million funding gap as the project faced three years ago, even though then it was supposed to be $165 million cheaper. The state legislature is expected to discuss bills to kick in the missing money in coming weeks.
- The city is still reportedly considering the use of money slated for improving blighted neighborhoods for part of the funding, something that might not make some local officials happy, since it would make those funds unavailable for other uses such as affordable housing.
I'm still trying to track down actual images of the stadium plan, though you can see a tiny image of what looks like a grainy pencil sketch here. Watch this space for further details.
Neil,
The sketch you're referencing is if they would build it next to the Orange Bowl. There are more sketches listed in these sites, ballpark.com and ballparksofbaseball.com. The design would probably change since they are planning to construct it in a different area.
Posted by: Roberto on February 28, 2007 06:45 PM
Oh, that's still the old design? Never mind then - I've seen the renderings at the sites you mention, and yeah, I figured they're completely obsolete by now.
If anyone can hook me up with the new designs (if they in fact exist yet), I'd be very curious to see how they plan to fit this thing on such a tiny footprint...
Posted by: Neil on February 28, 2007 07:23 PM
Isn't this right about time for Sampson to bust out a move-threat?
Posted by: Jonathan on March 1, 2007 11:55 AM
Technically this image that they have on the new clip is from when John Henry owned the team, @ the Bicentenial Park site. I'd be pretty certain it has nothing to do with the current design.
Posted by: okur27 on March 5, 2007 11:18 AM
man the marlins are cute as hell =]
Posted by: stveven on April 13, 2007 09:01 AM
