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Marlins Stadium Update No. 1 of 450 (Foundation work - UPDATED w/photos)
The Florida Marlins entered a significant chapter in construction of their new ballpark this morning, when the concrete was poured for the first of 12 super columns that will support the venue’s roof. (Photos courtesy of the Marlins by Robert Vigon).
The pour was the first of a total 450 foundation pours for the $515 million, 37,000-seat ballpark project. According to a release form the team, the concrete was poured over an 8-foot deep, 40 foot by 40 foot hole. About 250 cubic yards was to be poured this morning out of a total 60,000 cubic yards for the project.
“Starting the first of 12 foundation pours means that the super columns that support the retractable roof will be erected by this fall,” Claude Delorme, Marlins senior vice president of ballpark development, said in a statement. 
Concrete company, Colasanti Specialty Services Inc., is leading the foundation work.
Meanwhile, the team has awarded the contract for construction of the retractable roof to Structal-Heavy Steel Construction, a business unit of Canam Group. The company has worked on dozens of North American sports venues, including BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise and AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami.
The team officially broke ground July 18 for the ballpark scheduled to open in 2012.
Comments
You are going to vomiting a lot in the next two years. The Marlins are getting their own stadium in Miami. Deal with it.
Posted by: Mikey | September 11, 2009 8:46 AM
The thought of this stadium makes me vomit.
Posted by: NS | August 25, 2009 7:48 PM
The difference is that when I signed up for my mortgage I was fully informed of the total price I would pay over time. With the Marlins and this boondoggle of a stadium deal, the public was never informed of the full expense of more than $2 Billion dollars until the deal was signed and the land was cleared. That's the difference.
And I believe that the county and city commissioners deliberately suppressed the total cost from the public because they knew there would be a huge outcry and that could potentially jeopardize the deal had the figure of more than $2 billion dollars ever been uttered.
Posted by: BJ | August 15, 2009 1:11 PM
it's called the time value of money people
Posted by: bss | August 14, 2009 11:10 PM
BJ, do you own a home ? Pay mortgage ? Do you consider the price you paid to buy it or the price you'll end up paying when the mortgage is counted ?
Posted by: Mitch | August 14, 2009 8:07 PM
Sarah,
In the future can you please refer to the stadium as having a $2.4 Billion price tag instead of the "paltry" $515M. The $515 million represents only 20% of the total payback cost, which is probably news to the overwhelming majority of South Florida residents who were clearly not informed of the true cost of this stadium. Had the $2.4 Billion number been ever uttered in public instead of being suppressed, there would have been a mutiny and the project almost certainly wouldn't have gone through. What a terrible injustice.
Posted by: BJ | August 14, 2009 4:57 PM
But what we really need is a artist rendering (or computer rendering) of the ballpark as it would appear from the vantage point of their webcam, and on the same web page as the webcam so we can visualize which bits of the park they are working on.
Posted by: Tom | August 14, 2009 9:29 AM