Information about Feb. 17 High Line Presentation at University of Miami and Feb. 29 Dinner to Honor Jack Meyer, Engineer of Miami marine Stadium
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This newsletter includes a summary of the wonderful Gloria Estefan/Jimmy Buffett event for the Marine Stadium held at the Coral Gables Museum on January 9, 2014. The event generated significant press-over 1 billion media impressions in Florida, USA, Latin America and the Carribean. The Marine Stadium has generated a significant amount of press over the last several months including an article in a German Art Magazine. The Stadium has also inspired efforts such as a poem and a photography exhibit. The update includes a look at the Tourism Cares volunteer project scheduled for May, 2014.
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Friends of Miami Marine Stadium to go to January, 26 Miami City Commission meeting to be designated as developer for the Marine Stadium. Call for support! Also, description of High Line event on February 17 and dinner honoring Jack Meyer, engineer of the Marine Stadium on February 29.
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The Marine Stadium Steering Committee unanimously aproves the Master Plan presented by Friends of Miami Marine Stadium. This is a big step forward; the City Manager will now make his recommendation to the Miami City Commission and Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority for an allotment of land for Marine Stadium Park.
The Marine Stadium had a terrific Art Basel-there was some great press including a front page story in The Art Newspaper, the most improtant publication in the art world. There were also several important tours of the Stadium for Art Basel VIPs, including the Board of Trustees of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in NYC.
Finally, the newsletter contained a terrific Marine Stadium memory, by Johnny Reed, a Champion boat racer who had several death defying crashes.
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The Virginia Key Master Plan-which includes the Marine Stadium, is now scheduled to go to the City of MIami Commission on July 22 for approval. We will provide you with more information on upcoming meetings shortly. The plan has been developed with the cooperation of a student workshop at University of Miami School of Architecture (under the direction of Jorge Hernandez, Co-Founder of Friends of Marine Stadium and Hilario Candela, architect of the Stadium) and a coalition of groups lead by the Urban Environment League.
We recently met with Jack Meyer, the originial engineer of Miami Marirne Stadium. Jack has been very helpful to us and strongly supports efforts to restore the Marine Stadium. Thanks to superior engineering and workmanship, the Stadium is structurally sound and can be repaired. Jack's remarkable story of the creation of the Marine Stadium can be found on this website under "Articles and Press".
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This update includes description of the Floating Stage Awawrds Ceremony at the Rusty Pelican and more articles and press. Friends of Marine Stadium announces that it has incorporated and applied for 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. We will also be forming an independent Board of Directors.
We continue to seek memories of the Marine Stadium for our book, IF SEATS COULD TALK. This update featured a link to a memory by Stuart Blumbreg, who gave a first person account of "The Hug"-when Sammy Davis Jr. embraced Richard Nixon at a campaign rally at the Marine Stadium in 1972.
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Friends of Miami Marine Stadium continues work on developing operating and fundraising plans for the Marine Stadum. The Coral Gables Museum will host an exhibition of selected entries to the floating stage design contest and Marine Stadium historical memoraibila in the spring of 2013. This update includes numerous links to articles done about the Marine Stadium by the Civil Engineering Department of Princeton University.
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Gloria and Emilio Estefan announce a $500,000 contribution to Friends of Miami Marine Stadium. June 28 is the debut of the Art History Mural Project at the Stadium; 8 street artiststs from around the world paint murals at the Stadium that will be photographed for limited edition prints, to be sold as a fundraiser for the Stadium. There is a press conference to document the event. Tourism Cares, a not for profit organization funded by the travel indusry, conducts a volunteer day at the Marine Stadium and Virginia Key. 350 tourism professionals from around the United States clean the Stadium and plant 800 trees and 12,000 sea oats at North Point on Virginia Key.
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The Virginia Key Master Plan was voted down by the Planning Advisory Board on a 8-0 vote. The Plan was withdrawn from the Agenda of the Miami City Commission meeting on June 23, 2009
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The Marine Stadium site plan is going to Miami City Commission on July 11 and we need your help! Please email the City Commission and ask them to support the plan. The Coral Gables Museum will host the first ever exhibit about the Marine Stadium this October, 2013. Miami philanthropist Kirk Landon has provided a $50,000 grant, to be matched by others-for the Marine Stadium. The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce has gotten on board as a supporter of the Marine Stadium. The Stadium is now an important part of the 2013-2014 Chamber goals. The Gloria Estefan announcement has given us terrific momentum on our effort to restore the Stadium. All told, the announcement was covered by media reaching over 50 million people in the United States, Latin America, and the Carribean.
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