Marlins' Ballpark

This is the official thread for the new stadium of the Marlins, Marlins' Ballpark.



INFORMATION:

The Florida Marlins' new ballpark, known as Miami Ballpark in official documents, is an approved ballpark that will be built near Downtown in the area known as "Little Havana". It will be located at the site of the former Miami Orange Bowl. Upon completion, the new stadium will become home to the Florida Marlins, which will change their name to the Miami Marlins when moving into the stadium. Groundbreaking and construction are tentatively scheduled to start in approximately July 2009, and the Marlins are scheduled to move into their new home in April 2012. The stadium will become the sixth Major League Baseball stadium to have a retractable roof. Others include: Rogers Centre, Chase Field, Safeco Field, Minute Maid Park, and Miller Park.

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FINANCING:

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[*]Florida Marlins - $155 million
[*]Miami-Dade County - $347 million
[*]City of Miami - $13 million
[/list]Total Cost: $515 million



DIMENSIONS:



Capacity - 37,000 (approx.)

Left field - 340

Left center - 384

Center - 416

Right center - 392

Right field - 335

I sure hope the new stadium means fans that will commit to the team. The Stadium looks nice.

It looks so unique. I'll definitely be going down there for Mets games when it is done.

It looks sick. I just hope that it attracts more fans to come to the stadium for games....

It looks rather nice. However, why so many seats? Only about 10 percent will be full.

[quote name='Hayden' post='3848' date='May 17 2009, 03:17 PM']It looks rather nice. However, why so many seats? Only about 10 percent will be full. [/quote]



37,000 seats is probably the least amount of seats at any stadium in the MLB. I think even the Marlins will be able to sell out a lot of games there.

I was just kidding. I know it isn't a lot of seats, but they don't have a lot of fans that go to the games now. I was trying to put some sarcasm in.

Just to put this in here since so many people like to bag our attendance the major issues why people don't come is because Landshark (Dolphin Stadium) is a crappy stadium for baseball. With the constant threat for rain there all the time there's always a chance people will be there for an extended rain delay or it'll get postponed so people choose to stay at home and watch it on TV. The new stadiums retractable roof and is a true baseball field so we'll get fans in the seats.



Plus it pretty much guarantees no more firesales. Loria said we'll probably start to head toward being more of a middle of the pack team in terms of overall payroll which will be nice and let us lock up some of our young studs longterm.

[quote name='Marlinschamps03' post='4070' date='May 17 2009, 04:48 PM']Just to put this in here since so many people like to bag our attendance the major issues why people don't come is because Landshark (Dolphin Stadium) is a crappy stadium for baseball. With the constant threat for rain there all the time there's always a chance people will be there for an extended rain delay or it'll get postponed so people choose to stay at home and watch it on TV. The new stadiums retractable roof and is a true baseball field so we'll get fans in the seats.



Plus it pretty much guarantees no more firesales. Loria said we'll probably start to head toward being more of a middle of the pack team in terms of overall payroll which will be nice and let us lock up some of our young studs longterm.[/quote]

Won't there be one more firesale seeing as they are paying so much for the cost of the stadium?

I hope for the MArlins' sake, the fans' butts will be in the seats.

[quote name='Marlinschamps03' post='4070' date='May 17 2009, 04:48 PM']Just to put this in here since so many people like to bag our attendance the major issues why people don't come is because Landshark (Dolphin Stadium) is a crappy stadium for baseball. With the constant threat for rain there all the time there's always a chance people will be there for an extended rain delay or it'll get postponed so people choose to stay at home and watch it on TV. The new stadiums retractable roof and is a true baseball field so we'll get fans in the seats.



Plus it pretty much guarantees no more firesales. Loria said we'll probably start to head toward being more of a middle of the pack team in terms of overall payroll which will be nice and let us lock up some of our young studs longterm.[/quote]



Also it's way up north, too much in a suburban environment for tons of people to come. I hope for the Marlins' sake it works though, too.

[quote name='zackboomer' post='4116' date='May 17 2009, 02:01 PM']Won't there be one more firesale seeing as they are paying so much for the cost of the stadium?[/quote]

Thats part of the reason for the last firesale and why are payroll has stayed so low since. We should actually start increasing the payroll a bit over the next few seasons before we move into the stadium in 2012.

[quote name='sevenfiftyfive' post='4209' date='May 17 2009, 02:28 PM']Also it's way up north, too much in a suburban environment for tons of people to come. I hope for the Marlins' sake it works though, too.[/quote]

Yea there actually making this into a whole development project for the area so everything should work out good.

I find it funny that the Marlins already have a sign up in left field advertising to get season tickets for the new ballpark already. Quick, you and 2 other people are competing for the seats behind home plate!

it looks like a really nice stadium. I don't like the Miami Marlins though. The Florida Marlins seems more fit for me.

They need a massive aquarium with an actual marlin in it, that'd be sick...

[quote name='High Mileage' post='61611' date='Jun 23 2009, 04:45 PM']They need a massive aquarium with an actual marlin in it, that'd be sick...[/quote]

That would be soooo sick.

But yeah, the stadium looks sick. Hopefully that'll attract more fans to the park.

[quote name='High Mileage' post='61611' date='Jun 23 2009, 01:45 PM']They need a massive aquarium with an actual marlin in it, that'd be sick...[/quote]

I think we are actually doing a mechanical Marlin thing that'll jump out after HR but no real Marlins as far as I know lol.

[quote name='MiselisM' post='61572' date='Jun 23 2009, 01:30 PM']it looks like a really nice stadium. I don't like the Miami Marlins though. The Florida Marlins seems more fit for me.[/quote]

Yea I prefer to stay Florida Marlins but we had to add that in the stadium deal so we can't do anything about it now.

[quote name='Johan' post='61564' date='Jun 23 2009, 01:28 PM']I find it funny that the Marlins already have a sign up in left field advertising to get season tickets for the new ballpark already. Quick, you and 2 other people are competing for the seats behind home plate![/quote]

Well we more then likely are gonna have pretty good attendance once we open up the new stadium and not just at the start. They wanted to make sure the fans who come to games now get first selections to get good seats at the new ballpark.

[quote name='High Mileage' post='61611' date='Jun 23 2009, 04:45 PM']They need a massive aquarium with an actual marlin in it, that'd be sick...[/quote]





Man, that would be sick. Going to have to go see the stadium when I go back to Florida in a few years.

I would love to see this when it is open.

Just looking at the dimensions...the Marlins should go out and get some good pitching now...this is gonna be one hell of a pitcher's park. 340 and 335 down the lines? Jeez.

Loria said the dimension will probably somewhat resemble landshark stadium so yea it's gonna be a pitchers park.

They talked about groundbreaking in tonight's game. They're all pretty excited about it. It's good the see the Marlins organization and all the PR that they are putting out for this is really pro-new Stadium and they really are pushing this ballpark to the fans. Hopefully it works and it fills the seats. I'm glad they are taking an aggressive approach to it.

Sorry about the double post, but here is an interactive view of the new park and I love it! Is it 2012 yet?



http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/florida...0,4316734.flash

Yeah, liking the looks of it. Looking forward to it. =]

Can't wait till 2012.

Here's a really cool and inspiring animation that was shown at the Groundbreaking Ceremony!



http://www.miamiherald.com/video/ind...dia_id=5140910

[quote name='RB!' post='85797' date='Jul 18 2009, 01:07 PM']Sorry about the double post, but here is an interactive view of the new park and I love it! Is it 2012 yet?



http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/florida...0,4316734.flash[/quote]

Just looked at this, it's amazing.