About - Marlins Park
Marlins Park is a baseball park located in Miami, Florida. It is the current home of the Miami Marlins, the city's Major League Baseball franchise. It is located on 17 acres of the former Miami Orange Bowl site in Little Havana, about 2 miles (3 km) west of Downtown. Construction was completed in March 2012, in time for the 2012 season. The stadium is designed in a neomodern form of baseball architecture. Marlins Park was also LEED certified as the greenest MLB park in 2012. The building is the sixth MLB stadium to have a retractable roof. With a seating capacity of 37,442, it is the third-smallest stadium in Major League Baseball by official capacity, and the smallest by actual capacity. The stadium's public-funding plan led to a protracted lawsuit, largely contributed to the ouster of several local politicians, and triggered an SEC investigation. As revelations of the team's finances and their handling of payroll (both before and after construction) seemed to contradict some of the premises on which the tax-funded-stadium deal were based, the ballpark controversy intensified. Despite questionable financing decisions by members of local government at the time, the financing of the project did not use General Fund taxes from local taxpayers and pulled from tourist funds specifically allocated for public-benefiting projects like sports facilities.
How to Reach -
Metrorail Express Shuttle Service from Culmer Station Park anywhere along the Miami-Dade Metrorail system, exit at Culmer Station and enjoy the dedicated Express Shuttle to the ballpark! Travel time during peak times is fewer than 10 minutes. The shuttle will run 90 minutes prior to the event start time and 60 minutes following the event. Fans that elect to use cash value on EASY Fare Media will need to load $5.65 to buy the round trip fare. For more info on the Marlins Shuttle, visit Miami Dade Transit's page here.