Miami Freedom Park – design description

Miami Freedom Park is a complex planned by private investors with ties to David Beckham to be built on the site of the Melreese Golf Course, right next to Miami International Airport. Only the baseball fields will be retained from the existing quarter.

In addition to the main stadium, a hotel for 750 guests, offices and stores are planned, as well as a soccer academy with nine fields (but only one full-size) and an extensive park for residents. The entire development will occupy an impressive 53 hectares.

The main stadium itself has long been kept a secret. The first visualizations from 2018 showed an irregularly shaped oval facility.

After a year, a concept by Arquitectonica and HOK was shown. The planned capacity was 25,000 spectators with an irregular layout of the stands, including a massive single-level stand in the north and a VIP balcony suspended high above the pitch in the south.

The inner walls of the venue were to be covered with a large, irregular screen, much like the one in Russia's Krasnodar, and a lightweight roof of light-transmitting membrane was formed in the shape of the wings of a flamingo, the club's symbol.

In 2024, however, a new design was presented. The concept has been simplified from that of 2019 – the stands have a more regular form, and the flat, symmetrical roof no longer resembles the flamingo's wings.

Construction of the new Inter Miami stadium began in August 2023, and it is expected to open in early 2026.