Miami Heat Could Play In Kaseya Arena, With Negotiations Underway

The Miami Heat’s arena in downtown Miami could soon be renamed Kaseya Arena, according to the Herald.

Kaseya is a technology company based in Brickell.

The company is now in active negotiations on a naming rights deal, according to a statement released by Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.

The facility is currently known as the Miami Dade Arena.

The building was known for two decades as the American Airlines Arena, but that naming deal expired.

In 2020, the county government took control of management of the naming of the facility, with plans to use the proceeds for a number of pet projects. County politicians voted to sell the rights to FTX (that deal was terminated last year).

Kaseya was recently named as the mystery tech company seeking incentives to add 3,400 high-paying jobs to its downtown Miami world headquarters.

 

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Anonymous
2 months ago

Next they should sell the land across from the Arena and finally do something with it!

Anonymous
2 months ago

The time to capitalize in Miami is now so hopefully we’ll something happening there soon!

Anonymous
2 months ago

You can’t built around the Freedom Tower so those lots will never be developed.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Any proof to back up that statement?

Frankonymous
2 months ago

This person incorrectly says that any time the arena deal is mentioned. They stated the zoning is limited to two floors there, also incorrect.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Any proof to back this up?

Downtown Vagabond
2 months ago

That’s not true at all… Why do people just make shit up?

Anonymous
2 months ago

That should be a low-rise museum!

Anonymous
2 months ago

The lower floors of Freedom Tower were supposed to be a museum, but MDC neglects it.

Anonymous
2 months ago

They should keep it as parking but cover it with an artistic mountain so it could be a park with underneath parking! Win win for everyone.

Anon
2 months ago

yes, it should be a replica of the swiss alps with fake snow on top! perfect for Miami post cards sold at Bayside!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Your lack of imagination and creativity is showing.

Anonymous
2 months ago

So kind of like the hill in South Pointe Park but with a garage underneath instead of public bathrooms? I actually love this idea!

Meram
2 months ago

why not a garage with paid public bathrooms

Real estate 101
2 months ago

The freedom tower is a landmark. Landmarks can’t be buried in the skyline.

Professional Engineer
2 months ago

Underground metro station. Its coming.

Anonymous
2 months ago

^promise to hold your breath until it does!

Melo is sigma and Chad
2 months ago

Hopefully someone outbids them

Anonymous
2 months ago

I’m hoping for something like Amazon or Apple or any other major company to put their names here. This will just create another FTX situation otherwise.

Anon
2 months ago

Keep hoping.

Anon
2 months ago

Come back to earth.

Anonymous
2 months ago

We had American Airlines before so this isn’t too much of a stretch. A local smaller company is more of a stretch than Apple, Amazon, etc.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Please no! We need something bigger than that.

Anon
2 months ago

Kaseya is a great Miami grown company. Miamians should be proud to have Kaseya Arena.

Anonymous
2 months ago

No!

Anonymous
2 months ago

I agree. I’m very much tired of seeing the same old boring multinational corp names plastered over everything throughout the country. Don’t know much about Kaseya, but it seems to at least be truly home grown and up-and-coming as a tech firm. The sound of it’s name also seems to have a nice Miami-esque ring to it, or at least to my ears. Why not something different, for a change?

anon
2 months ago

this company has nothing to do with miami. they relocated from boston in 2018 like all the other newcomers. the word “kaseya” doesn’t even sound anything like miami, sounds more like the name for an african city

Anonymous
2 months ago

Funny…The Citadel relocates from Chicago to Miami and this board beats off 24/7/365 nonstop, and Citadel sounds like some military outpost.

Meram
2 months ago

whatchu talkin bout Anon

Anonymous
2 months ago

Bring back AAA! American Airlines, come back to mama❤️

Anonymous
2 months ago

We could do Spirit Arena now!

anon
2 months ago

LATAM arena or Avianca arena (even better)

Anonymous
2 months ago

Is it normal for foreign companies to have naming rights on U.S. stadiums? I can’t think of any, but maybe I’m wrong.

Anon
2 months ago

Mercedes Benz in Atlanta

Meram
2 months ago

sounds cheap

Professional Engineer
2 months ago

Can you imagine Apple Arena? with a big apple logo on top…

Anon
2 months ago

Can you imagine keeping your expectations even remotely realistic?

anon
2 months ago

apple doesn’t do naming rights, its a high end tech design firm, leave that to corporations

Meram
2 months ago

so Apple’s not a corporation?

anon
2 months ago

Incredibly lame. They’re a no-name company. I hope the mayor holds out for someone bigger to sponsor it

Anonymous
2 months ago

They mayor will sell it off to the highest bidder, not to the most preferred product or service maker. And Kasea being “no-name” is EXACTLY why they are bidding on this naming right.

anon
2 months ago

I don’t think the highest bid should be the only concern. That’s how we ended up with FTX Arena. That damaged Miami’s image, now it needs to be repaired

Downtown Vagabond
2 months ago

Disappointing. Bad idea to make this deal with an unknown company whose cash-flow is not secure.

Sgt Sapingo
2 months ago

It seems like I might have seen something like this before. Don’t remember where though.

Meram
2 months ago

kinda like the Suarez FTX scam huh

Anonymous
2 months ago

Kaseya sounds like a Chinese knock-off of Kyocera. It doesn’t help that Googling it gives you info on a ransomware attack.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Tesla Arena!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Does Kasea even have the kind of bucks it takes to score a NBA arena naming rights deal?

Anon
2 months ago

It’s only a 20 million dollar deal. Yeah they have the money they have over 6,000 employees globally

Anon
2 months ago

Still surprised Mickey hasn’t just leased the rights himself for Carnival or one of this other cruise brands

Meram
2 months ago

Carnival or Royal Caribbean Arena sounds great!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Ah yes…the company that laid of my husband’s entire department in 2016 and left him jobless for a hot minute

Anonymous
2 months ago

Off*

Anonymous but Famous
2 months ago

Wait a second! I looked at the map, and did Next Miami run out of green ink? What happened to Parcel B, which was going to be a park paid for by the Heat?

Vic
2 months ago

I would love pornhub arena 😊

Anonymous
2 months ago

Why not Miami Heat Arena?

Zz01
2 months ago

Because the Miami Heat aren’t going to pay to play in an area that they create the advertising value for.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Still rooting for Ryder Center.

Meram
2 months ago

Sounds too much like a truck, ole school

wanderer34
2 months ago

I’d love for the Panthers to come back to Miami after playing almost 25 years in suburban purgatory called Sunrise in Broward County. There’s already ice underneath Miami Dade Arena and it makes sense to place an NHL team back in Miami. With the exception of the Anaheim Ducks and the New York Islanders, all NHL teams play in their host cities downtown like the Montreal Canadiens, the New York Rangers, the Boston Bruins, & even the Tampa Bay Lightning do or close to their downtown like the Chicago Blackhawks, the Detroit Red Wings, the Philadelphia Flyers and hopefully the Ottawa Senators do.

A part of the reason why the Florida Panthers do so poorly isn’t because of the team, nor the market or the warm weather, it’s mainly because the Panthers play in a suburban arena that’s not only far away from Miami (39.2 miles or a 1 hr drive, at the worst) but it’s even far away from Ft Lauderdale (19.7 miles or a 26 min drive). People come into the city (meaning Miami) for shopping, nightlife, recreation, culture, and business, not the other way around!

https://www.city-data.com/forum/miami/3412687-should-panthers-come-back-miami.html

Anonymous
2 months ago

That’s a narrative to fit your downtown cheerleading agenda…the Panthers originally played downtown and their attendance sucked there too. They moved to Broward because they were able to get their own hockey-dedicated stadium built there, plus they were closer to the snowbird Canadians in Hollywood and Sunny Isles and Pompano.

anon
2 months ago

right, people in miami could care less about hockey, a sport that has no place in a tropical region where no ice or snowfall is ever present. people in miami care more about baseball, fútbol and even american football.

Anonymous
2 months ago

So… how much less could they care?

anon
2 months ago

nobody in miami watches the panthers. nobody in miami cares about ice hockey. hell, even the MLS team which can be better has way more viewers than the panthers.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Still holding out bangers arena

Anonymous
2 months ago

Bangbros

Anonymous
2 months ago

Are you 12?

Sgt Sapingo
2 months ago

Lol this again?