Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 16, 2008
Miami Marlins

It looks like the Marlins are going to get a new stadium:

The deal calls for the county and city to contribute $360 million mainly in tourist taxes and a $50 million general obligation bond Miami-Dade voters approved in 2004 to renovate the Orange Bowl, but which will instead be moved to the ballpark project.The Marlins are to contribute $155 million.

The Marlins have been trying for years to finance a new ballpark, but numerous deals were derailed when the state Legislature failed to help pay for the project. The new agreement does not count on state dollars and officials have said they have never been closer to building a 37,000-seat retractable roof ballpark.

I love the comment on this article at BBTF:

To keep with recent tradition, the new stadium will be built with 37,000 empty seats.

Posted by David Pinto at 06:46 PM | Stadiums | TrackBack (0)
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