Utilities Agreement For Giant Development At Miami Freedom Park Completed

The City of Miami has just signed a deal with the county to supply water and sewer to Miami Freedom Park.

According to the agreement recorded on August 4, the city intends to construct and connect the following at Miami Freedom park:

  • 25,000 seat sporting facility
  • 360,000 square feet of full service restaurant
  • 240,000 square feet of retail
  • 750 hotel rooms
  • 400,000 square feet of office
  • public park with toilets, capacity for 500 persons

The city will pay a connection charge to the county estimated at $3,968,572.50, the agreement states.

Arthur Noriega, City Manager, signed the deal on behalf of Miami.

 



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Anonymous
1 month ago

i’m glad this project is finally moving. Miami needs more gathering and iconic places, cities like NY ,Dubai and las vegas are always building massive entertainment complexes. that land is very valuable to be wasted on golf course that only a few people use

Joseph
1 month ago

Who is going to want to “gather” in an open field in 90 degree weather with no shade? Might as well be in the everglades.

johnny footlong
1 month ago

i need this space for the big python in my pants

6pack
1 month ago

Haha

Anonymous
1 month ago

I believe he was referring to the stadium, but between a golf course open most of the day versus a stadium empty most days of the week, I don’t think there’s a cumulative difference in visitors. However, one obviously makes more money than the other.

Mayor Francis Suarez
1 month ago

it’ll be like a fly to honey once we open up the exhibit that is the python in my pants.. we’ll have every cuban mami within a 1,000 miles at the stadium

Danny
1 month ago

I wonder if they could do ultra here

*NAME*
1 month ago

Unlikely you’d be able to have lights and lasers that close to an airport but it’s not a bad idea.

Anonymous
1 month ago

MESSI!!!

Anonymous One
1 month ago

Imagine Lebron James moving to play in the Mexican basketball league or something and dominating it? Would really be saying that PROVES he is the goat. You all would be trolling him daily and you know it is true. This is all so fake and forced.

Melo is sigma and Chad
1 month ago

Looking forward to the covered path from the metrorail station. this should also jumpstart developments around the airport station

PBJ
1 month ago

I’m worried they’ll pull a typical Miami move and just not build it since this county doesn’t hold any developers responsible when it comes to pedestrian infrastructure. I have a feeling this will only get built if the developers see a big enough need/opportunity to feed into their project, which it undoubtedly would.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I think the airport already has done that. This should jumpstart extending Metrorail south to Douglas Road.

Azarius
1 month ago

A real hope filled wish

Anonymous
1 month ago

It already goes to Douglas Road dingbat

anonymous
1 month ago

he is talking about extending an additional line directly south down Douglas road dingbat

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s gotta be a typo… a park with the capacity of only 500 persons… I mean I know no one is gonna use it anyways. But wasn’t part of their pitch about creating a massive park…

BDub
1 month ago

Maybe the toilets have 500 person capacity

anony
1 month ago

All 500 taking a dump simultaneously is akin to miami taking 2 dumps-first on baseball stadium and now this.

Anon
1 month ago

That was the pitch. The reality is an office park and mall (oh and the stadium)

Fern
1 month ago

Gotta leave my obligatory complaint that this wasn’t built in Overtown, but getting past that I’m glad to see that this stadium is finally moving along.

Is it possible they can extend the metro past the Airport down to the edge of the stadium grounds? I know the tracks continue a ways past the station. Moving it down another half mile couldn’t be that much work

Anonymous
1 month ago

Back in 2016, the Miami Herald reported Metrorail expansion costs $150 million per mile. Figure on it being $300 million per mile in 2024. Yeah, it’s “that much work”.

anonymous
1 month ago

Excited to see who the Hotel Operator would be and really hoping is not Marriott; with the Westin project at the Airport and the Cluster by Le June Rd. we need brand diversity in this area.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Marriott has a monopoly on two-thirds of the hotel flags. What do you want, Motel 6 Lux?

anon
1 month ago

add some trees to the middle!

Ol' Riley
1 month ago

I was not a big fan of the whole soccer stadium idea UNTIL I saw the interest created by Messi joining the team. Turns out it’s still true that if you put a winning team on the field in Miami, the fans will come.

At 36 years old I doubt Messi will still be at the top of his game by the time the stadium is completed, but if Beckham maintains his commitment to excellence that led him to sign Messi, Miami should still have a team good enough to keep this moderately-sized stadium full.

As far as the “park” adjoining the stadium, I agree with others who have commented that a giant grass lawn in Miami is just a big waste of space. There are NOT going to be people frolicking and lounging on a hot, treeless expanse like is pictured in those silly renderings.

How about a gigantic lake with water filtered/circulated by pumps, and a beach around it? With shade trees, barbecue grills and picnic tables nearby? Or if you don’t like that idea then what’s another one? Surely you can come up with something — “giant grass lawn under sweltering sun” is a low bar to get over.

Anon
1 month ago

Congrats to the Mas brothers on getting their massive real estate development play, I mean stadium, started. They’ll be making millions for years off all the other uses they’re including. Swindled the public perfectly.

William
1 month ago

How many people used Melreese each year?

Anonymous
1 month ago

That doesn’t mean we should give away public land for free

Choo Choo
1 month ago

It’s a fair market lease. And we’re using private money to remediate the land that remains owned by the city, while $0 of taxpayer money goes towards the construction of the stadium and the city gets millions of dollars each year. And all the employees will be paid a living wage. It’s about as good as a public private partnership can get.

anonymous
1 month ago

Except the fair market value was done before the pandemic started. While the City will get millions we are losing out on millions of the life of the lease now

C_los305
1 month ago

How can you loose millions when you’re currently losing money, yearly, from the maintenance and expenses associated with the golf course? Now those yearly expenses and looses from the maintenance of the course can be allocated elsewhere.

C_los305
1 month ago

The city has to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars just to keep that golf park open. Using tax payers money to accomplish this. When they get rid of that expense they can allocate those funds to other places where it can be more useful. At a minimum that soccer stadium will generate more.money to the local business owners such as restaurants, retails, and many other local business owners who in turn have to pay more taxes to the City which ultimately means the city will save money from the maintenance and keep up of a useless golf course and also make money from those local businesses. Not to mention those businesses will have to hire locals to keep up with demands. The City and locals will benefit from this. Also, as a local tradesman, we are given the opportunity to bid on the building of this facility. Many local tradesman and contractors will benefit from the construction. Please tell me where are we all being screwed because I don’t see it.🤷🤷🤷

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’m ecstatic that we are getting rid of that golf course and instead are getting something that the whole community will be able to use. Thank you to the Mas brothers and Beckham for making this project a reality.

Anonymous
1 month ago

A public golf course is something the whole community could use so long as they paid the fee. Just like they will have to pay to get in to the soccer game.

Anonymous
1 month ago

But my point was that it was used regularly by an extremely small number of Miami residents. Good riddance.

Anonymous
1 month ago

…just wait til the attendance figures come in lol

Anonymous
1 month ago

attendance will be extremely small as well

Anonymous
1 month ago

Um, I didn’t know more residents in Miami were professional soccer players than casual golfers.

Anonymous
1 month ago

There aren’t, this guy just wants a soccer stadium he can attend for 3-4 games in the 1st season they play there and then by year 5 he’ll be back to watching all the games on TV.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The soccer stadium will also be used by an extremely small number of Miami residents. Just because your own personal loins burn for a soccer stadium doesn’t mean it makes much sense for most Miamians.

Anonymous
1 month ago

That’s fine to let them develop the land but it needed to be sold at its market value not a sweetheart deal

Choo Choo
1 month ago

It’s not being sold its literally a lease

Anonymous
1 month ago

Thanks for the input, Beckham marketing department.

A True Miamian
1 month ago

You have a point there.

A True Miamian
1 month ago

I’m curious to see people/vehicular dynamic that occurs with this stadium development placed right at the entrance of MIA, even with the MIC in proximity. Is another Miami mess being created?

Basura
1 month ago

For anyone disagreeing with you, I’d like to ask why the city would move its office from downtown to the fringe of the city at the boundaries? Why move the city office miles away from the county offices, lawyers, bankers, etc? Why move the city office from the most transit accessible part of the entire county? So that you can supply people to spend money on all this unnecessary commercial development that would otherwise not be utilized on non-game days.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The city moved city hall from downtown to Coconut Grove before you were probably born.

Basura
1 month ago

The thousands of employees for the city do not work at puny town hall where there’s only offices for commissioners and the mayor. They work in downtown Miami, but sure, please let everyone else know just how little you know about the city.

Azarius
1 month ago

Parks should be the first to be built

Don
1 month ago

The city got duped again. They didn’t want a stadium, they want the hotel and retail. They already play in a 18,000 seat stadium so 7,000 more seats does not equate to a profitable sport team. They wanted the retail all along. Miami Mafia payments to come after politiicions are out of office. Castro wins again.

Pay Attention
1 month ago

I have never seen so much …….. ………. Fill in the blank —- in all my years –

No Public Money – ha !

First it will be – Captured dollars to Mitigate the Soil from a federal program to clean “
Superfund Sites” –

Than the Brothers “ not to be named” will get a special “ Taxing District “ created that provides enormous tax breaks. At taxpayers expense mind you.

Third- There will be Job Creation dollars

Fourth- There will be Tourism tax/ grant
dollars captured from City, County, State levels.

Fifth – There will be minority owned business tax breaks & incentives –

And thats just for starters –

Dont give me any crap about “ no public funds” / All Private –

We got fleeced !!
Full Stop !!