I found this article on a spring training magazine's website. I see that the site of Ft. Lauderdale Stadium and Lockhart Stadium is a possible site for a future Marlins home. Is there anything to this?

 

I remember Ft. Lauderdale Stadium when the Yankees used to train there. My family owns a place in the Ft. Lauderdale are, and we would go to a Yankees spring training game or a Fort Lauderdale Yankees game (Yankee A team in Florida State League then) each year. I even remember when we used to go to Ft. Lauderdale during the summer when the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers used to pack them in at Lockhart Stadium.

 

I know the current occupants of Ft. Lauderdale Stadium, the Orioles, are itchy to leave. Does anyone know what the future for that facility holds?

This is one of the sites, I believe, proposed to be the permanent home of the Marlins in the regular season. I do believe, however, that the proposition of this site wasn't with the intent of putting the Marlins there, but of getting the Marlins a better deal elsewhere.

I am starting to think that the best place for the Marlins is in Broward county. Who knows...

There are currently three offers on the table for the Marlins:

 

-Proposal from the City of Miami to restructure the Orange Bowl property to allow an adjoining baseball stadium to be placed next to the stadium.

 

-Invitation from Ft. Lauderdale for the Marlins to play in the spring training facility near the fairgrounds, which would involve substantial add-ons to get the stadium to accommodate 40,000 seats or so.

 

-Offer from Don King for the Marlins to use his West Palm Beach property to build a stadium, which includes a TriRail attachment.

There are currently three offers on the table for the Marlins:

 

-Proposal from the City of Miami to restructure the Orange Bowl property to allow an adjoining baseball stadium to be placed next to the stadium.

 

-Invitation from Ft. Lauderdale for the Marlins to play in the spring training facility near the fairgrounds, which would involve substantial add-ons to get the stadium to accommodate 40,000 seats or so.

 

-Offer from Don King for the Marlins to use his West Palm Beach property to build a stadium, which includes a TriRail attachment.

It's odd how there hasn't been any news over the past 2 weeks. Wasn't Miami-Dade County supposed to come back with their own offer by now? Not having heard anymore on the OB deal makes me wonder if something else is in the works.

I found this article on a spring training magazine's website. I see that the site of Ft. Lauderdale Stadium and Lockhart Stadium is a possible site for a future Marlins home. Is there anything to this?

 

I remember Ft. Lauderdale Stadium when the Yankees used to train there. My family owns a place in the Ft. Lauderdale are, and we would go to a Yankees spring training game or a Fort Lauderdale Yankees game (Yankee A team in Florida State League then) each year. I even remember when we used to go to Ft. Lauderdale during the summer when the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers used to pack them in at Lockhart Stadium.

 

I know the current occupants of Ft. Lauderdale Stadium, the Orioles, are itchy to leave. Does anyone know what the future for that facility holds?

correct, I believe this is the last year on the Orioles contract to play there, & they are not planning on renewing. The group in Broward that proposed a Marlins stadium plan there didn't seem to have much idea about financing, and some writers didn't feel they made a "serious" proposal. We'll see if anything else surfaces about it in the coming weeks....

FutureGM i hope its the third one , if there is a Tri-rail attachment Marlins will have no problem filling seats. That is why alot of the major city stadiums do so well is because of mass transit going to them , SF , Philly, Boston , Yanks and Mets .