Photo: Equipment At Miami Freedom Park Stadium Construction Site

Equipment can be seen at the Miami Freedom Park construction site, where a 25,000 seat stadium is planned for Inter Miami.

Multiple construction permits are now in process for the site, including phased foundation and vertical permits.

According to Miami New Times, Miami-Dade commissioners voted in December to ask for $5 million of state taxpayer funding to clean up arsenic contamination and for other infrastructure improvements at the site.

Miami Freedom Park will eventually include the 25,000-seat multi-purpose MLS stadium, a 58-acre public park, over 1 million square feet of commercial retail, entertainment, amusement, and office space along with three hotels totaling 750 rooms. Total value is estimated at $1 billion.

 



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Anonymous
1 month ago

Why is Miami’s idea of a park a patch of grass, we need greenery, shade, and actual things to do at the park

Tropical Miami 🌴🌳🦜
1 month ago

I wanna see towering banyans in the middle of that sea of green just like in the Granada golf courses in Coral Gables with other shade trees and coconut palms.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Banyans take years to grow, which is why their removal is controversial, and should be banned in the City core. We should require any lot with a Banyan to be park.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Alright then… gumbo limbos are native, grow relatively quick, and produce great canopies.

Tropical Miami 🌴🌳🦜
1 month ago

Gumbo limbos are pretty! More gumbo limbos and less live oaks please. Live oaks only look pretty when they’re old

Anonymous
1 month ago

Brickell has some. Hope they stay and get woven into new development.

Never
1 month ago

Coral Gables is where people from Cuba who have been here for decades live, it’s not treeless Little Havana!

Choo Choo
1 month ago

Theres supposed to be a shit ton of soccer fields in the park atleast

Alex
1 month ago

Most of the world’s best parks are known for their huge but simple meadows. They have all of the Grapeland Park amenities right there.

Anonymous
1 month ago

In Florida, park visitors often avoid sitting on open lawns due to the hot and humid climate, which can be uncomfortable for outdoor relaxation. Additionally, the presence of insects, particularly mosquitoes, makes lounging on the grass less appealing. The grass types adapted to Florida’s conditions can also be less soft and inviting compared to cooler climate grasses. These factors combined make shaded areas and other amenities more popular for park-goers seeking comfort.

anonymous
1 month ago

didnt the developer say that no public money would be used on this? As per usual our politicians fleece residents and we now get to fork over $5 million

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s what I thought. Plus 5 million compared to a billion dollar project is truly chump change. Taxpayers should not be on the hook here. What are we missing?

Not My Tax Dollars
1 month ago

Hopefully the state says no. Not sure if this would require appropriations from the state legislature or not, so it can’t hurt to contact our representatives and urge them no.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’d rather see 5 million of State money go toward improving transit, parks, amenities, and roads in core areas like Brickell and Downtown, than a soccer field I may rarely ever use and that could cause more traffic issues. Maybe this is for the World Cup?

We love chickens
30 days ago

Jorge Mas is one of the most powerful people in Dade for decades, he doesn’t need real estate harbors!

Anon
1 month ago

With all the gross waste and mismanagement of our local gov, including endless studies and multimillion dollar “consultants” and it’s the $5 mill towards a public park and stadium that’s setting you off?

Anonymous
1 month ago

The consultants get cars paid for by the city – shouldn’t they at least be required to live in the urban core without a car, given the sole purpose of their salary is to study walkability?

Truth Matters
1 month ago

Unfortunately Messi won’t play here

Sad
1 month ago

😩

Adrian
1 month ago

I wish they kept as many trees as possible. But this is a better use of the land.

Tom
1 month ago

What’s the definition of a park these days? In the render I don’t see any park benches, fountain or anything to interact with. Who’s going to lay on a blanket out in an open field in the Miami heat? I’m hoping one day we get a real park like you see in other cities!

Anonymous
1 month ago

This isn’t the Miami city core, is it? Definitely agree we need more of those in the city core but there are already tons of shaded parks in the suburbs.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Whatever the definition of iconic is, because what has been classified as such sure ain’t it.

Anon
1 month ago

Vamos Miami!! Get this built for 2025 🎊

???
1 month ago

Looks like enough left over land to build a UM stadium

Crime Scene
23 days ago

Jorge Mas and his other speculators killed 1,200 trees and every blade of grass on this 100 acre public park. Mas is about to cover the entire site in concrete. Another Miami crime.

IMCF
1 month ago

Personally, I believe the stadium should be resigned and bigger. Not a fan of how the inside is going to look either with that rendering.

Anon
1 month ago

Then you’d complain it’s taking too long to build.

IMCF
1 month ago

Should’ve gotten it right the first time.

Anonymous
1 month ago

True that, we should have the option to see our favorite college football teams like UM
Hurricanes – huge football fans in Miami love the UM Hurricanes!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Would have been brilliant to create a par 3 golf courses designed by Coore & Crenshaw with a much smaller foot print. No thinking outside the box with those plans.

Tom
1 month ago

It makes no sense to spend all this money to build a 25,000 seat stadium. Double the size and have the University of Miami play their games there instead of HR stadium which is so much further from campus.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’d rather go see a UM
Game that can be converted smaller for soccer right? It can serve two purposes

Tropical Miami 🌴🌳🦜
1 month ago

Nobody gives a crap about UM. Irrelevant in the rest of Miami outside of the gables

Anonymous
1 month ago

So basically, a giant frying pan.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Awful stupid waste of “public” greenery Shops and stadium come on!

Tropical Miami 🌴🌳🦜
1 month ago

yo mama

Taxed Out
1 month ago

Biggest waste of public land. Theft!

Tropical Miami 🌴🌳🦜
1 month ago

tu mamá

Name*
1 month ago

Isn’t there a lot of unhappy mediums at play here? Stadium is big for MLS, too small for UM, not in any of the preferred locations for MLS, and only mediocre for UM, who are now overtaking Tropical Park for theirs, etc.

Tropical Miami 🌴🌳🦜
1 month ago

Who gives a crap about UM, the city of Miami (millions) does not need to cater to the needs of a population of 9,000 spoiled Jersey brats. Messi is 1000x bigger than anything UM related

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s a well regarded school, and we want to keep its graduates here, while Messi will leave in a few years.

Tropical Miami 🌴🌳🦜
1 month ago

Messi is here to stay. He’s probs gonna retire in Miami and keep the hype around.

Tropical Miami 🌴🌳🦜
1 month ago

Well regarded in hazing allegations and onlyfans models 🤡

Choo Choo
1 month ago

I mean this is far from the biggest MLS stadium, Atlanta and Seattle play in NFL stadiums. This was never meant to be UM’s stadium, that was just a weird obssession one of the commissioners had, I’m pretty sure the U didn’t even want it

Jon
1 month ago

Can we lobby the developer to incorporate some golf driving range or even a par 3 course? Like cmon look at all that completely wasted open space. Would be a nice “give” to the public for them to incorporate the land’s legacy use…

Anon
1 month ago

“Dear Mr Developer,

Will you please include a par 3 golf course in your new public park? I am very sad that there are now merely 13 courses left in Miami for me to play.

Signed,

A random commenter from the Next Miami”

Jon
1 month ago

Curious why this is getting downvoted.

Look at West Palm Beach’s newly opened municipal golf course for inspiration. Golf is a very popular sport and there aren’t enough public facilities in the City of Miami.

All i suggested was a measley driving range…

Anonymous
1 month ago

Golf and golf courses need to die

Anonymous
1 month ago

Cool, and we can replace the course you live behind with warehouses like that one course near Miami Gardens.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Miami’s sports scene isn’t just basketball, soccer, and casinos. Look at Palm Beach with public clay tennis courts and clubhouses. There’s also interest in golf, volleyball, and tennis here in Miami, especially in Brickell. It’d be good for new areas to add more facilities for these sports, fitting Florida’s outdoor lifestyle.

Never
1 month ago

You mean smoking, playing Scratchoffs?