Marlins Park
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Marlins Park in April 2012
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| Address | 501 Marlins Way |
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| Location | Miami, Florida |
| Coordinates | 25°46′41″N 80°13′11″W / 25.77806°N 80.21972°WCoordinates: 25°46′41″N 80°13′11″W / 25.77806°N 80.21972°W |
| Public transit | Free City of Miami Trolley from Metro Rail Civic Center Station or Marlins Shuttle from Culmer Station |
| Parking | Four main parking garages and six surface lots |
| Owner | Miami-Dade County |
| Operator | Miami Marlins LP |
| Capacity | 36,742 37,442 (with standing room) 34,000 (Football) |
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Left Field Line – 344 ft (105 m) Left-Center Power Alley – 386 ft (118 m) Center Field – 407 ft (124 m) Right-Center Power Alley – 392 ft (119 m) Right Field Line – 335 ft (102 m) Backstop: – 47 ft (14.3 m) |
| Surface | Platinum TE Paspalum |
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| Broke ground | July 1, 2009 (Start of construction preparations) July 18, 2009 (Ceremonial Groundbreaking) |
| Opened | March 5, 2012 (HS baseball game) March 6, 2012 (exhibition game) April 1, 2012 (spring training game) April 4, 2012 (regular season) |
| Construction cost | US$634 million ($661 million in 2017 dollars) |
| Architect | Populous |
| Project manager | International Facilities Group |
| Structural engineer | Bliss & Nyitray, Inc (bowl and track) Walter P Moore (roof) |
| Services engineer | M-E Engineers, Inc. |
| General contractor | Hunt/Moss Joint Venture |
| Main contractors | MARS Contractors Inc. John J. Kirlin, LLC. Structal – Heavy Steel Construction, A division of Canam Group (roof) |
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Miami Marlins (MLB) (2012–present) Miami Beach Bowl (NCAA) (2014–present) |
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Marlins Park is a baseball park located in Miami, Florida. It is the current home of the Miami Marlins, the city's Major League Baseball franchise. It is located on 17 acres of the former Miami Orange Bowl site in Little Havana, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Downtown. Construction was completed in March 2012, in time for the 2012 season.
The stadium is designed in a neomodern form of baseball architecture. Marlins Park was also LEED certified as the greenest MLB park in 2012. The building is the sixth MLB stadium to have a retractable roof. With a seating capacity of 37,442, it is the third-smallest stadium in Major League Baseball by official capacity, and the smallest by actual capacity.
The stadium's public-funding plan led to a protracted lawsuit, largely contributed to the ouster of several local politicians, and triggered an SEC investigation. As revelations of the team's finances and their handling of payroll (both before and after construction) seemed to contradict some of the premises on which the tax-funded-stadium deal were based, the ballpark controversy intensified. Despite questionable financing decisions by members of local government at the time, the financing of the project did not use General Fund taxes from local taxpayers and pulled from tourist funds specifically allocated for public-benefiting projects like sports facilities.
The facility hosted a second-round pool of the 2013 World Baseball Classic and will host the 2017 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The park also hosts soccer matches, fundraising galas and other events during the winter. It also hosts the Miami Beach Bowl.
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