This newspaper from Austria recently did a story about abandoned sports stadiums. The Marine Stadium was one of the featured stadiums. Scroll through these very interesting photographs.

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The Latin American Business Association represents a very diversified group of business executives We are pleased to have their support.

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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

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Site location work-which includes TV, Film commercial work-is extremely important to Miami as it is essentially "non-paid adverstising" for our community.

This letter of support by Christina LaBuzzetta, principal of the firm Location Resources, emphasizes that a restored Marine Stadium will be a terrific asset to our community and a great location for all kinds of site location work.
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Click below to see details of the contest to design a logo for Friends of Marine Stadium. Anyone can enter. The winner gets a cash prize of $250-and the satisfaction of helping a worthy cause! Entries are due by May 2.

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The Getty Grant for the Marine Stadium has generated national and international publicity including this article in the Los Angeles Times.

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Floating Stage Contest successfully launched. The Miami Marine Stadium received extensive press coverage in February and a sample of press is provided. Also, a discussion of the impact of Hurricane Andrew on the Marine Stadium-the Stadium was never damaged by the Hurricane. The MiMo conference of Dade Heritage Trust will be held on March 11-12 and will feature the Miami Marine Stadium. Representatives of Friends of Marine Stadium and the newly reformed Florida Inboard Racing Club traveled to Detroit, Michigan for the annual meeting of the American Power Boat Association, the sanctioning body for boat racing in the United States. The boat racing community is very anxious to have boat racing brought back to Miami.

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The Marine Stadium Item on the City Commission Agenda was deferred to March 14. We thank all of the supporters who wrote the Commission. 

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On April 6, the Miami Dade County Commission will meet to consider a $3 million authorization from the Historic Preservation Fund to be used for the restoration of Miami Marine Stadium. This funding will not be available to us immediately-and there are numerous strings attached-but it is an important start. We urge all Miami Marines to contact the Miami Dade Commission to approve this resolution.

Also, this report contains a discussion on the costs of restoring Miami Marine Stadium as well as two power boat races, the Treasure Coast Hydroplane Regatta and the Sunny Isles Power Boat Challenge, which are hosting charity events to benefit the Friends of Marine Stadium/Dade Heritage Trust.


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We continue to ask Marine Stadium supporters to contact the Miami City Commission to approve the site plan. The Marine Stadium was featured in a terrific ten page cover story in Preservation Magazine, the publication of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The leaders of Miami Dade State Legislative Delegation visited the Marine Stadium and expressed strong support for its restoration.

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Final call to action for April 6 Commission meeting. Check out attached great photo of the Miami International Triathlon by JJ Palacio.

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Announcement of contest to design a logo for Friends of Marine Stadium. 

All entries are due by May 2. The semi-finalists will be unveiled at a party at the Bayside Hut, right next door to the Stadium, on May 7. More details to follow!


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On March 27, there will be a public planning charrette for Virginia Key, to be held at the Rusty Pelican. The charette is co-sponsored by the University of Miami and Urban Environment League, and will present design concepts for the Virginia Key from the University of Miami Architectural Studio taught by Jorge Hernandez and Hilario Candela.

Over the last month, we've made steady, quiet progress with numerous public presentations and additional press. Friends of Marine Stadium is the chosen beneficiary of the Miami International Triathlon and Treasure Coast Hydroplane Regatta-both the types of events that can return to a restored Marine Stadium.

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On March 8, the City of Miami Commission will consider legislation to create a partnership between Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority and the City of Miami to develop plans to restoe the Stadium. We are asking people to email the City Commission to support this legislation.

 

February was a very big month for Friends of Miami Marine Stadium. On Feb. 17, Robert Hammond and Phil Aarons, Co-Founder and Founding Chair of The High Line delivered a lecture entitled "The High Line-New York's Park In The Sky: Lessons for Miami Marine Stadium.  The lecture was delivered to a full house at the University of Miami School of Architecture and was co-sponsored by the Miami Chapter of the American Insttitute of Architects.

 

We also honored Jack Meyer, engineer of the Marine Stadium at Biscayne Bay Yacht Club. The event was sold out-160 people-and featured Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, speakers from the engineering profession and the Universtiy of Miami School of Engineering, Jack's alma mater.

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A smaller version of the Marine Stadium exhibit (which was developed by the Coral Gables Museum) has moved to HistoryMiami.  An exhibition of photographs of the Marine Stadium by Flor Mayoral debuts at TubGallery in Wynwood. The Marine Stadium receives major publicity through articles in a European art web Magazine, Damn, The District, a national web publication of General Motors, and PokerrunsAmerica. For this month, the Marine Stadium Inspires section features Arts Entrepreneur Craig O'Neil, who is creating a program to sell limited edition prints of street art created at the Stadium as a way to raise restoration funds.

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On October 8, the City of Miami Historic and Environmental Preservation Board designated both the Marine Stadium and the Basin as historic.

The City of Miami has appealed the designation of the Basin because it might impact other initiatives that may be proposed by EDSA, the City's consultant for the Virginia Key Master The designation of the Marine Stadium structure has not been appealed.

OCTOBER 8, 2009 UPDATE

The Administration has dropped its appeal of the historic designation of the Basin and the envelope of land surrounding the Stadium. The designation-as approved by the City's Historic and Environmental Preservation Board-now is in place. We are very pleased with this result.


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This study, prepared for the City by Astorino Architects and Engineers in July, 2008, reviews the structural conditions of the Marine Stadium.

View the complete report (PDF, 10 Mb).

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A segment on National Public Radio on the Stadium. Our first national press!

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Miami Vice is widely considered to be one of the most visually interesting television shows of all time-and a show that played a significant role in the revival of the popularity of Miami.

Click on the link below to see a whole episode and scroll to the time segment 28:30 to see the Marine Stadium at night, lit up like a large, concrete ghost.

We have received lots of interest from movie and television location scouts about the Stadium. Its strong visual appeal and uniqueness makes it a great icon-and advertisement-for Miami.


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