Watch the Video! Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes, performance date 1985.

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AMIKIDS Miami Dade is a not for profit organization dedicated to providing our community's troubled youth with a promising future. The program, which oriented to 14-19 years olds, has an extremely high 80% success rate. AMIKIDS has a branch located on Virginia Key near to the Stadium. Friends of Miami Marine Stadium looks forward to working with AMIKIDS on area cleanups, restoration projects, and unofficial sea grass surveys. Attached is a letter of support from Joseph King, the Executive Director of Miami-Dade AMIKIDS. It is these types of connections that we seek to foster to make the Marine Stadium a real community purpose building.

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On July 28, there will be a "birthday party" for the CIty of Miami. Friends of Marine Stadium has been selected to be one of the ten charitable beneficiaries for this event. You can support Friends of Marine Stadium by going to the website aaarena.com and buying a ticket (cost $25) for this event-and designating Friends of Marine Stadium as the charity of choice.

The Virginia Key Master Plan-which includes the Marine Stadium, is now scheduled to go to the City of MIami Commission on July 22 for approval. We will provide you with more information on upcoming meetings shortly. The plan has been developed with the cooperation of a student workshop at University of Miami School of Architecture (under the direction of Jorge Hernandez, Co-Founder of Friends of Marine Stadium and Hilario Candela, architect of the Stadium) and a coalition of groups lead by the Urban Environment League.

We recently met with Jack Meyer, the originial engineer of Miami Marirne Stadium. Jack has been very helpful to us and strongly supports efforts to restore the Marine Stadium.  Thanks to superior engineering and workmanship, the Stadium is structurally sound and can be repaired. Jack's remarkable story of the creation of the Marine Stadium can be found on this website under "Articles and Press".

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This update includes description of the Floating Stage Awawrds Ceremony at the Rusty Pelican and more articles and press. Friends of Marine Stadium announces that it has incorporated and applied for 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. We will also be forming an independent Board of Directors.

 

We continue to seek memories of the Marine Stadium for our book, IF SEATS COULD TALK. This update featured a link to a memory by Stuart Blumbreg, who gave a first person account of "The Hug"-when Sammy Davis Jr. embraced Richard Nixon at a campaign rally at the Marine Stadium in 1972.

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Notice on Virginia Key Master Plan, which includes the Marine Stadium ad comes before the City Commission on Thursday, July 22. We support the proposed plan, which places the Marine Stadium at the center of the restoration of Virginia Key, and we urge Miami Marines to email the Commission and attend the meeting.

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A length email update after our successful appearance before the City of Miami's Historec Environmental And Preservation Board. The Beard agreed to nominate the Stadium for Historic Designation by a 7-1 vote.

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The City of Miami is having a birthday party July 28.  The Miami Marine Stadium has been selected as one of the charities to benefit from ticket sales for the party. Tickets cost only $25 for an evening filled with music, food, and fun-and all of the ticket price can be designated for Friends of Marine Stadium.

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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.

July 2012 Update

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Gloria and Emilio Estefan announce a $500,000 contribution to Friends of Miami Marine Stadium. June 28 is the debut of the Art History Mural Project at the Stadium; 8 street artiststs from around the world paint murals at the Stadium that will be photographed for limited edition prints, to be sold as a fundraiser for the Stadium. There is a press conference to document the event. Tourism Cares, a not for profit organization funded by the travel indusry, conducts a volunteer day at the Marine Stadium and Virginia Key. 350 tourism professionals from around the United States clean the Stadium and plant 800 trees and 12,000 sea oats at North Point on Virginia Key.

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A discussion of the Virginia Key Master Plan and how it relates to the Marine Stadium. 

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Describes what we have been doing after the Shindig

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Engineering study of the Marine Stadium is funded. Sources include The World Monuments Fund, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Villagers, Inc. Miami Dade County Commissioner Carlos Gimenez, The John and Selene Devaney Foundation, and Friends of Marine Stadium and Dade Heritage Trust.

The Virginia Key Master Plan was voted down by the Planning Advisory Board on a 8-0 vote. The Plan was withdrawn from the Agenda of the Miami City Commission meeting on June 23, 2009


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Preparations for our appearance before the City of Miami Historic Environmental and Preseravtion Boar meeting of July 2.

The Marine Stadium site plan is going to Miami City Commission on July 11 and we need your help! Please email the City Commission and ask them to support the plan. The Coral Gables Museum will host the first ever exhibit about the Marine Stadium this October, 2013. Miami philanthropist Kirk Landon has provided a $50,000 grant, to be matched by others-for the Marine Stadium. The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce has gotten on board as a supporter of the Marine Stadium. The Stadium is now an important part of the 2013-2014 Chamber goals. The Gloria Estefan announcement has given us terrific momentum on our effort to restore the Stadium. All told, the announcement was covered by media reaching over 50 million people in the United States, Latin America, and the Carribean.

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Excellent description of the May 7 Shindig and May 8 Presentation by the University of Miami Preservation Workshop on a Master Plan for the Marine Stadium area and basin.

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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.

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Here's a front page story about Jay Koenigsberg photography exhibit of the Miami Mairne Stadium.

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Here's a brief article describing our efforts. We continue to get lots of local press.

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This is actually our second letter of support from the very important Kiwanis Club of Little Havana. We are pleased to have their support, and look forward to working with the Kiwanis Club so that they can put concerts and other events at the Marine Stadium.

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We are very pleased to have the Kiwanis Club as a sponsor. This very important business ogranizaton sponsors Carnaval Miami, one of the largest street festivals in the Western Hemisphere. The Kiwanis Club recognizes the role that the Marine Stadium has played in the Cuban Heritage of Miami. The organization would also like to promote concerts at the Stadium.

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