‘Transformational’ Entertainment Development Planned At Marlins Stadium

The Miami Marlins have announced a partnership with The Cordish Companies to develop an entertainment district at their stadium.

The new district will be known as Miami Live!, and will be similar to others developed by Cordish in Arlington, Texas and Kansas City.

Miami Live! will include indoor and outdoor dining, entertainment, and gathering areas.

It will be located at the West Plaza of loanDepot park, and open to the public.

“Miami Live! will become the living room for the community and offer a new year-round gathering place for locals and visitors alike,” said David Cordish, Chairman and CEO of The Cordish Companies.

The project will be privately financed.

The official opening is anticipated for early 2026.

 

 

 

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rainey411
25 days ago

Remember when the Marlins stadium was supposed to be “transformational?”

Hopefully Cordish helps them get it right this time

Yan Jammer
25 days ago

It transformed a sleepy neighborhood with the orange bowl in it to a sleepy neighborhood with a ballpark.

Voltaire
25 days ago

and half a billion dollars spent to subsidize a rich guy, not to take a risk!!! but all my friends that love baseball were dreaming with the poor boy becoming a baseball player on the premises of having a Great Stadium will fulfill that dream! !

Anonymous
25 days ago

It’s one thing to build it, but quite another to make it easy to get to it and back. Marlins stadium is bereft of mass transit while LoanDepot Park has the promise of Metrorail.

Bob
25 days ago

And yet Miami did it again with Freedom park for Miami FC….. what a short sighted metro!

Javanka
24 days ago

Rubio screwed up everything. The Marlins were probably waiting for him to leave Florida to announce this. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

Anonymous
20 days ago

The Inter Miami Soccer stadium is being constructed two miles away. It will have a much better entertainment component. I cannot see that this project will be successful.

ParkingHater
25 days ago

Absolutely nothing will improve this location without improving the zoning in the surrounding blocks. My favorite part of the WBC was how many Japanese fans I met taking the 11 and 17 bus after games and just being astounded by how bad the area was (not safety, just that it’s a residential neighborhood next to a giant stadium)

Anonymous
25 days ago

the zoning throughout the entire LH needs upzoning and rezoning for sure.

Anonymous
25 days ago

it’s always been lame that little havana is filled with strip malls, seedy warehouses, and wasteful parking lots. If anything it should resemble old Havana’s architecture in scale and ambition, but actually clean and not falling into decayed ruins. Tourists and locals alike would be much more eager to go there if someone had the vision to make it like that

Anonymous
25 days ago

And add a little Havana metro mover loop

anon
25 days ago

^the requisite irrelevant Metromovertard comment rises up as always on a thread

Anonymous
25 days ago

MetroRAIL, using the east-west platform at Government Center Station, duh…

huh
25 days ago

Yeah the single family homes across the street from a massive arena is wild urban planning…..

Anonymous
25 days ago

The houses and a stadium have been there for about 100 years. When Yankee Stadium was first built, The Bronx was the density of Riverside Heights.

Anonymous
24 days ago

Same as the 40 story building in the Design District being across the street from single family homes. All these size queens not realizing how horrible that is going to be.

anon
24 days ago

The same condition exists in Brickell except it’s an 80 story building

Anonymous
25 days ago

For the millionth time, the zoning already allows the construction of high-density mid-rise buildings. Landowners unwilling to sell are why redevelopment is so slow. You don’t need West Brickell-tier one-third parking garage, two-thirds cereal box development ruining another neighborhood with great potential.

Densegos
25 days ago

every building is one-third parking garage, and you mean the best tier within the Miami condo market, exclusive boutique sized luxury.

Anonymous
25 days ago

There is little difference in the size or quality of buildings across all sides of Brickell, both have a mix of established legacy buildings and sleek modern structures. However, the western frontier of the neighborhood just offers more room for newer and better development projects that fortify Brickell as a prime area to live, work and play.

anon
23 days ago

^^and they still won’t be BAYFRONT so nobody really cares

Anon
25 days ago

This is so accurate! There are bigger projects going up in this district right now. Clearly zoning isn’t the issue. They should also cut back on the parking requirements so there aren’t giant parking podiums everywhere. Will help with the “charm” factor for the neighborhood

Henry
25 days ago

Wish all the blocks had retail and restaurants, it’s such a waste of space to have aging buildings that are not up to code, with zero street level interaction or activation, especially being so close to Brickell and other downtown areas.

Anonymous
25 days ago

Most those buildings have better street interaction and human scale than any Arquitectonica box atop a parking podium will, ever.

Waa
25 days ago

They have abandoned shopping carts and stoops with layers of dirt caked on uneven surfaces, barred up windows, that’s welcoming? No stores, vague sidewalks that look like country dirt roads.

Anon
25 days ago

Yes just need to renovate some buildings and knock down others. Keep the charm in Little Havana and grow smaller than Brickell but dense

Billy Bikes to Brickell
25 days ago

We need a modern, quiet tramway system, similar to those in Nice or Istanbul, to connect Brickell with the new Marlins neighborhood center. The system could operate on a loop along 7th and 8th Streets, using embedded rail tracks that allow cars to drive on them when the trams aren’t present. The trams would be electric-powered, offering eco-friendly and efficient transit. This type of system, often referred to as a light rail streetcar, combines the convenience of urban mobility with a design that integrates seamlessly into the city’s streetscape.

huh
25 days ago

If Miami can’t even get a single BRT line off the ground I highly doubt they can accomplish light rail

Anonymous
25 days ago

Better than Metromoober.

Istanbullshit
25 days ago

WE NEED to stop using ChatGPT to derail thread topics.

Jordan
25 days ago

ChaptGPT is Viagra for impotent writer.

Alo
24 days ago

When they can’t argue with you, they try to steal your thunder because they can’t stand someone else having better ideas.

Jordan
25 days ago

At what price?
If its less than $100m to build, and less than $1m to maintain and operate..I’m buyin!

anon
24 days ago

It’s insane to me how cities in South America are building beautiful and connective tram systems meanwhile the closest tram to being built in South Florida in Fort Lauderdale was decommissioned.

Javanka
24 days ago

Thanks Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz

anon
23 days ago

Insane is comparing shuttling around 3rd world peasants on government trains to Americans who like driving around in leather trimmed SUVs.

Casey
25 days ago

Good

Hanley Ramirez
25 days ago

All profit from Miami Live! should be given back to the Miami-Dade tax payers for a few years to partially pay back the bs public funding they forced to the residents.

CFCasaniva
24 days ago

The only “transformation” that the Marlins need is putting a competirive team on the field and abandoning the “dollar store” mentality of the front office.

Anonymoose
24 days ago

Only sports team/entertainment venue where I’ve been able to haggle the price of my ticket with the front box office. Shows just how cheap and unpopular the whole franchise is.

peej
25 days ago

ah yes, let’s spend more on facilities but continue to neglect our payroll…

Anonymous
25 days ago

Riverside is finally going to be the downtown adjacent low-key upscale neighborhood hub we’ve all been waiting for!

Michael1
25 days ago

If it looks contained within the stadium property, it probably won’t generate development of the surrounding area. Hopefully, they design it to look inviting from the street.

Miami Vibes
25 days ago

Hopefully it will end up looking and having more of a Miami vibe. The images shown look like something you would see around disney world or universal.

Anonymous
25 days ago

It looks like a car rental outpost at a midewest airport. Can it have more eclectic and sophisticated vibes?

Anonymous
25 days ago

Leave the prewar structures alone, unless replacing with something that isn’t a modernist monstrosity.

Jordan
25 days ago

In 2025, every structure is a Pre-war structure.

DC to Miami
24 days ago

If you want an example of good urban planning around a baseball stadium take a google map walk around the Navy Yard neighborhood around the Nats Park in Washington DC.

Paulo
25 days ago

I’d love to have a Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Costco here – also can we get some nicer full service fitness clubs in Brickell and downtown?

Anon
25 days ago

Imagine paying a premium for frozen food 😆 Whole Foods isn’t bad but Trader Joes is silly

Anonymous
25 days ago

Trader Joe’s is less expensive than Publix and better quality – Whole Foods is overpriced amszn shopper bs went downhill when it got automated

Anon
25 days ago

Missed opportunity to call it ¡Viva! instead of Live, given the neighborhood and baseball culture that is there.

305 Always
24 days ago

Totally agree, their other venues are in Texas and Kansas city. Other worlds totally different than Miami.

MeorYOuorYouorMe
24 days ago

Everything in Miami is build so weird, you got the Hard Rock Stadium – which is not in Miami in the hood, in a non-safe area. you got the Dolphin I mean just read these comments and now the new Beckham Stadium being built in LaLa Land.