When you leave Miami International Airport, there is a structure to the right of the road that attracts attention. It is a colosseum that is taking shape in the heart of a city that has been transformed by leaps and bounds in recent years. And he has done it, above all, with architectural emblems such as Aston Martin Residences, completed in 2024. That temple that is sighted is the Miami Freedom Park, a complex that aspires to revolutionize the consumption of football in the US, as Inter Miami is already doing thanks to the 'Messi effect'.
To understand the dimension of the new scenario you have to take into account the current Chase Stadium where the American team plays its games. It was opened in Fort Lauderdale in 2020 on the old Lockhart Stadium after being built in just 10 months.
Of 25,000 spectators
From the beginning, the work was conceived as a modular and temporal architecture, With the objective of erecting in the future the Miami Freedom Park, which was a reality in 2026, the year in which the US will be coanfrerion of the World Cup.
The first big difference between and the new Inter Miami scenario will be in capacity. While the Chase has been expanding its capacity to 21,550 spectators, the new Freedom Park will raise its capacity to 25,000 locations. Although the increase in seats is not a priority. “It is important that it is always full,” they say from Club, that it has prioritized the functionality of spaces to the number of spectators. That is why a careful scale of VIP boxes and hospitality zone that reach half a million dollars in the most luxurious case, in the case of a prolonged contract has been designed.
The complex, which is being raised at a dizzying speed, as those who pass every day around it affirm, It is conceived under the logic of American entertainment, but without neglecting the atmosphere of football. Hence, in the models it looks like a fief where the stands are close to green. One of the funds is retractable, designed for the days in which there are events.
Wide offer of VIP boxes
The lawn is not retractable, as with the formula of the hypogeo used in fields such as Bernabéu. Florida has very propitious conditions for the growth and maintenance of rugs such as the bermuda, due to the heat recorded in the geographical area, which is accompanied by torrential rains that oxygen the surface. One of the most questioned themes in the Club World Cup.
“We have already confirmed several first level artists,” explain from an Inter Miami that has also sold field level suites, called Field Suites (between 12 and 18 people); In addition to the Sky Boxes (up to 10 people). To this we must add the Loge Packages or Palco seats, which will be sold in packages of up to $ 60,000. An income mine.
This will increase billing with respect to Chase Stadium up to 40%. The Miami Freedom Park has been conceived entirely by private capital of the community Beckham-Mas-Fuller and Ares Management. There is no public investment, except for the access of the field, for the Governor Desantis authorized a state subsidy of eight million dollars.
Messi, Fundamental figure
In return, the Inter Miami project will have the most extensive park in the city, Jorge Más Canosa Park, baptized in honor of the father of Jorge Mas, manager of Inter Miami with José Mas and Beckham. A Cuban exile founded by the Cuban American National Foundation. The profile of citizens who have helped build Florida. That is the goal of Miami Freedom Park, thought of as a structure that dynamizes an area where Melreese Golf was located.
Precisely, the beginning of the works started in 2023 with the demolition of the old golf course. The bureaucratic process was more laborious than the execution of Miami Freedom Park in itself. The project was approved in a municipal referendum with 60% of votes in favor. Currently, the structure of the field is already defined, hence the completion of completion can even be advanced, initially planned for the spring of 2026. By then, Inter Miami hopes to continue counting Messi, a cornerstone of a club at the forefront, not only from the MLS, but also of the 'soccer'.
