Recently,the National Trust for Historic Preservation created the "National Treasures" program to place emphasis on a limited number of historic sites in the United States. The Marine Stadum has made the first round of selections to the National Treasures list. This video features four sites nationwide-includirng the Marine Stadium.

Here is a feature length article in the Key Biscayne Islander about the potential of the Marine Stadium. Key Biscayne is very important to our Marine Stadium effort. It is our "front yard, and we continue to work closely with the Village of Key Biscayne to make sure that the redevelopment of the Stadium is an amenity for the Village.

SInce we started our initiative, we have gotten terrific press from The Islander.

Article in Salty Eggs Blog, a South Florida blog of Politics and The Arts about the Miami Marine Stadium. Very well written!

This study evaluates the Economic Impact of a restored Miami Marine Stadium.

This article interviews one of the Parkour Athletes who partcipated in the incredible video of the Marine Stadium that was produced by the World Freerunning Parkour Federation.

Here is a brilliant video of the Marine Stadium by the World Freerunning Parkour Federation. It combirnes the sport of Parkour, Opera, Graffiti, and of course the Miami Marine Stadium. It shows you the Stadium in a whole new light.

Friends of Miami Marine Stadium continues work on developing operating and fundraising plans for the Marine Stadum. The Coral Gables Museum will host an exhibition of selected entries to the floating stage design contest and Marine Stadium historical memoraibila in the spring of 2013.  This update includes numerous links to articles done about the Marine Stadium by the Civil Engineering Department of Princeton University.

Tourism Cares is a not for profit organization funded by the travel industry which seeks to encourage the preservation of historic places. The organization   looks forward to the opportunity to sponsor a "Tourism Cares Volunteer Weekend" to support the restoration of the Miami Marine Stadium.

In March, 2012 the Miami City Commission and MIami Sports and Exhibition Authority (MSEA) approved a Momerandum of Understanding (MOU) to enter into an agreement with Friends of Miami Marine Stadium to develop a plan for the restoration of and operation of Miami Marine Stadium.

Under the terms of the MOU, Friends of Miami Marine Stadium must present an operating and a site plan within six months and a plan for full funding of the Marine Stadium in two years. The Agreement was signed in May, 2012, and the "clock"starts at that time.

With the approval of the Memorandum of Understanding, Friends of Miami Mairne Stadium must now work very quickly to pull together plans for the Stadium. We have received a grant for $50,000 from the John L. and James S. Knight Foundation and to continue our planning and feasibility work. We have used a portion of these funds to hire the Washington Economics Group to do an economic impact study. We are now developing our fundraising plans.

The Marine Stadium has generated a signifciant amount of press recently. The Associated Press did a video feature which was syndicated to all of their television affiliates across the United States. There have also been feature articles in The Brickell Reporter and The Biscayne Times, as well as another television story by Eliott Rodriguez, Channel 4 CBS.

Here is an impressionistic piece about an impromptu visit to Miami Marine Stadium by Tom Falco, blogger and author of The Coconut Grove Grapevine.

The formal name of this thesis is "Form, Use and Sustainability: A Geometric and Structural Feasibility Study of Hypar Shells". It was written by Nathan Brown as partial requirement for his Bachelor of Science of Engineering at Princeton University.

This remarkable paper traces the history of concrete shapes similar to the Marine Stadium-and then provides a very in depth analysis of the Marine Stadium itself.

Article entitled "Because of Friends, Miami Marine Stadium gets Second Chance".

This article compares the restoration of the Marine Stadium with the construction of The Marlins Stadium. A solid endorsement by an important community newspaper!

Business groups like the Latin Chamber of Commerce recognize that the restoration of the Marine Stadium will have a positive economic impact on Miami and South Florida

This two minute video was put on the Assocaited Press website and was distributed to all of their National affiliates. Great exposure for the Marine Stadium!

Don Worth, Co-Founder of Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, interviewed by CBS reporter Eliott Rodriguez.

The Miami Marine Stadium continues to attract worldwide attention for its architecture and engineering. Here is an article-written by two engineers in Croatia, comparing the Marine Stadium to a torpedo launch station in Rijeka, Croatia.

An article about the passage of the Marine Stadium Memorandum of Understanding by the Miami City Commission.

We won! The MIami CIty Commission approved the Memorandum of Understading with Friends of MIami Marine Stadium. We have six months to submit a complete operating plan to the City and two years to provide a complete financing plan for the Marine Stadium.

The event to honor Jack Meyer, Engineer of the Marine Stadium was a big success. Over 160 people attended the sold out event at Biscayne Bay Yacht Club. The event featured presentations by Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, Hilario Candela architect of the Marine Stadium three Presidents of Engineering Societies, the Chair of the Depuartment of Coastal and Civil Engineering at University of Florida (Jack's Alma Mater) and friends from Biscayne Bay Yacht Club.

The letter is from Stephanie Meeks, President of The National Trust. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has been an important soucre of support for the Marine Stadium, through inclusion on the Trust's "11 Most Endangered" list in 2009 and grants for an engineering study and the Floating Stage Design Contest. Recently, the Trust named the Marine Stadium to its list of National Treasures, which means that the Stadium is now in line for additional support to move the project forward.