Miami Freedom Park Sitework Could Begin ‘In The Next Two Weeks’

Sitework at Miami Freedom Park is imminent, according to the Herald.

Jorge Mas, the managing owner of Inter Miami, said that permits have been applied for and a green light to begin work is expected “any day now.”

He added that he hopes to begin the work, including remediation and utilities, within the next two weeks.

Summer or early fall of  2025 is being targeted as the opening date for the new stadium, Mas added.

As of this morning, permits for demolition, tree removal, and site work are all still in process, according to Miami Building Department records.

 


Melreese gate closed. A Google Maps listing states the golf course is permanently closed: 

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anonymous
3 months ago

No way in hell it will be finished in 2025…

Melo is sigma and Chad
3 months ago

Stadiums aren’t apartment buildings, it doesn’t require drywall and piping nearly every 10 feet.

Anonymous
3 months ago

yeah pro sports stadiums are just that simple lol—-Marlins Park (albeit with a retractable full roof) took 4 yrs to build.

MM305
3 months ago

Its not impossible, but I agree, dubious to think it will be ready in 2025. I would love it, but look at the bridge they said would be ready by 2024 – now 2027/2028… I mean if it’s a bare-bones stadium that they keep adding onto in the off-seasons, I think it might be able to be done.

Anonymous
3 months ago

2125?

Anonymous
3 months ago

3025

Anonymous
3 months ago

I look forward to watching Messi at this stadium in 2025.

Anon
3 months ago

Allianz Field in the Twin Cities took 20 months of construction and looks pretty similar to this one. Not that it can be pulled off in 20 months here, but that’s a benchmark.

Anonymous
3 months ago

They’ll be lucky if they’re done with the golf course environmental clean-up by then, considering decades of pesticides and other harmful chemicals that have been deposited into the ground.

henry
3 months ago

Who are the general
contractor building this????

*Name
3 months ago

What’s up with those giant open spaces of lawn? Who’s going to sit there without any type of shading? Hopefully they will add some trees and something to do. Seems like wasted space.

Robert Hasek
3 months ago

I think since Messi arrived, the support for this has probably been insane. Obviously it won’t speed up construction.

Brooklyn
3 months ago

Can someone tell the Mas/Bechkam ownership group that they should incorporate a driving range in all that green space? Outdoor covered driving ranges don’t exist in Miami and it would pay homage to the site’s former use.

Anon
3 months ago

Or even a pitch/putt or 9 hole par 3 course. Could use something like that in South Florida

anonymous
3 months ago

there are two top golfs in dade county with three levels at each one. I’d rather the space be filled in with trees for people to enjoy. Not for a handful of people to hit golf balls

Brooklyn
3 months ago

Top Golf isn’t what I had in mind. A simple blue-collar covered driving range where you can get a bucket of balls for $10-$15 instead of the overpriced golfertainment and F&B at Top Golf.

You can create multi-level hitting bays to narrow the overall footprint. I’m sure trees could be planted alongside for ya. Seems like there is plenty of space for both.

Name*
3 months ago

Yeah even Vice City in the 80s had a two level driving range in GTA. It was a fun mission at leaf links, tho that was in Miami Beach.

Que bolá
3 months ago

you sound like a resentful, tree hugger leftist. Stop being bitter. The land was a former golf course. Golf is a popular sport in Florida, not a handful of people sport.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The second rendering shows what looks like a range in the right

iFlyMIA
3 months ago

I think they need to add more seating capacity. 25,000 is way too small.

Howard Roark
3 months ago

The real money is going to come from the naming rights. Next Era park or FPL field. Remember, MasTec does billions in work for FPL. The team gets to keep the naming rights money. Add concessions, parking, other events during the year, and all the commercial real estate, this a brilliant investment by Mas et al. But sad that precious land is being taken. Much better to have built this in Overtown where much of downtown and Brickell could easily access.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Why so sad? Lots of soccer fans in Doral and Weston, and they tend to be affluent to boot, and this location is more convenient for them.

Howard Roark
3 months ago

It’s the loss of a public golf course, the trees, the green space. And the neighborhood next to will now have even more traffic headaches.
And in response to the fan base, this is Miami. There are few true fans. People here only show up for winning teams and even then, only playoff time. The Marlins are in the playoffs if season ended today. Stadium attendance is pathetic. Weston is close to DRVPNK stadium. Attendance is lowest in MLS.

Anonymous
3 months ago

And you think having it in a slum area outside downtown would bring in more South Florida soccer fans – why?

Brooklyn
3 months ago

Fair point. I think my biggest gripe with the land lease are the nuances in the contract that the City of Miami didn’t fight for. Not receiving any share of naming rights revenue OR even disposition revenues from the sale of commercial buildings (I believe the City is getting 6% of gross revenues). Seems like misses.

DLO
3 months ago

Mas Freedom Park sounds good to me

Cover the Podiums
3 months ago

Perfect, just extend the metro rail from across the street

Anonymous
3 months ago

…and keep going south until Douglas Road Station. A far better extension than to Hard Rock, with streets that can facilitate a transit corridor.

mimiboy
3 months ago

VERY COOL. I have a feeling the silhouette of the stadium will be iconic for Miami. However it seems like it’s going to be annoying during games hearing planes takeoff and land.

Anon
3 months ago

It’s against the law to use the word iconic

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s the “I” word.

Son of Putin
3 months ago

Airplanes are quieter now

Joe
3 months ago

Might be a nice stadium but no one will be able to hear themselves since it’s 6 inches away from an international airport.

Tame*
3 months ago

It should have been in Overtown!

Inter miami
3 months ago

The stadium should have at least 50,000 capacity. 25,000 is way too small

Anonymous
3 months ago

They know their business. They currently average around 16,000 per game. MLS avg. is around 22,000 per game. The highest attendance (and it’s by far) is Atlanta at 45,000 per game. Build to over 50k capacity –yeah no.

Fair Weather Fan
3 months ago

Have you ever thought that they average 16k because no one wants to go to fkn Fort Lauderdale? And the team hasn’t even been good. You want people to drive to the next county over to watch them lose in summer weather??

Anonymous
3 months ago

Have you ever thought about the Miami Fusion, the previous MLS team here that folded. They played at Hard Rock Stadium, which is literally dead center in the middle of the metro South Florida population mass. What was the excuse then?

Also, Broward doesn’t have soccer fans? Palm Beach? What, the free Metromover won’t take you outside your bubble?

Common Sense Man
3 months ago

Bro the Fusion was over 20 years ago. Demographics have changed dramatically over the last 20 years. The point is it’s INTER MIAMI not Inter Fort Lauderdale. If you’re BANKING on a MIAMI-BASED TEAM to show up to games, it would help to have the games in at least MIAMI-DADE COUNTY.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Average MLS attendance is 22k/game, and you want a stadium with over 50k capacity WHY? The team ownership doesn’t want to build this capacity, yet you know better than them???

Average NFL game attendance last year was under 70k/game with a 17 game season. NFL is KING SPORT in the U.S.

MLS is a relatively fringe sport in the U.S. compared to the NFL, plus MLS has a 34 game season–twice as many games played, so per game attendance will naturally be less.

I recognize you now, you’re the one awhile back that argues with me that the Fed didn’t have to raise interest rates to cool the job market to bring down demand to bring down inflation. Even though the Fed believes this, and it makes common sense. You have your own private version of “common sense”.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Inter Miami Rising.

JOSE FIGUEROA
3 months ago

They need to plant trees in that open space. You will unable to use it in Miamis sun.

Name
3 months ago

OR we could have just used Hard Rock Stadium which has 40,000 more seating capacity than this will have. If Messi is going to attract such a large crowd, why limit yourselves to DRV PNK’s 18,000 capacity and this stadium’s 25,000 capacity when you could have Hard Rock’s 65,000.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Hard Rock is owned by Steven Ross and the Miami Dolphins. If Ross doesn’t want soccer in his stadium, then that’s that.

A Nonymous
3 months ago

Did anyone ask them?

Anonymous
3 months ago

Mas/Bechkam want thier own deal and to leave a mark on the city with a new facility. Otherwise, that would make a lot of sense. The Hurricanes do it and make lots of money instead of creating their own stadium – or maintaining the old one 🙁

ANON
3 months ago

The seasons partly coincide and so Inter Miami would be homeless for that period, so it doesn’t always work.

Name
3 months ago

Ok, then Marlins Park (LoanDepot) because it was developed with soccer and football in mind and still has tens of thousands of seats more than this proposed stadium. You can get over 37,000 versus 25,000.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The difference is thiousands more, not tens of thousands more. Plus neither the Marlins nor Miami MLS will fill 37,000 seats with any regularity. 25,000 will be a stretch.

Name
3 months ago

I’m sorry, I must not have passed elementary school math. Apparently 12,000 isn’t more than a ten of thousand, thereby qualifying it as tens of thousands.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Doesn’t look like it. TenS implies more then one ten thousand, which the 37,000 minus 25,000 difference of 13,000 surely is not. There needs to be multiple 10,000 amounts for it to be ten thousands, not one 10,000 amount plus 3,000. It has to be a number over 20,000.

Que bolá
3 months ago

baseball stadiums do not work for football (soccer). The diamond shape places the field too far away and the sightlines are terrible. Stop.

Name
3 months ago

It was literally built to be a flex stadium. You stop.

Anon
3 months ago

you can all talk about this that and the other, but face it, it’s going to be a new park for soccer in this location, no point to debate doing something else. that’s same as wishing the soccer stadium was on the west side of the port (which would have been amazing views of downtown) … would’ve been great but ain’t gonna happen.

Brooklyn
3 months ago

I think about this often.

Its interesting to think whether Beckham could’ve gotten the waterfront site done in the current poltiical environment in Miami / Miami Dade County rather than the one when he last tried 10+ years ago. And now Messi is a major catalyst.

A location downtown would’ve been far more impactful.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Hard Rock Stadium is in Miami Gardens, bleh…

Name
3 months ago

Doesn’t stop UM from making the trek from Coral Gables.

anonymous
3 months ago

This is more than just to have a stadium for a soccer team to play in. This is in fact a tourist attraction that the hard rock could never even dream of. A new tourist attraction in a tourism oriented city. Remember Soccer is the most important sport in the world, “lets go to the park where the Stadium of the Messi team is.” Which is a 5 min train ride for the airport (just imagine all those tourist that have a 6+ hour layover) and right next to the metromover, tri-rail and one day the east-west corridor.

Name
3 months ago

This is the dumbest take that’s ever been presented on this website.

Anon
3 months ago

Lol like they’d exit then re-do security to stand outside an empty stadium and feel Messi vibes