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Renderings show Miami new football operations center / parking garage in plans filed with Coral Gables

On3 imageby:Matt Shodell•12/06/22•

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Miami Hurricanes new football facility rendering

As the University of Miami moves forward with its plans to expand its football operations center around Greentree Practice Field, the plans were filed with the City of Coral Gables and include renderings of the proposed buildings.

The application was submitted Sept. 8 and was first reported by GablesInsider, which reported that “The plans, still in the early stages with the City of Coral Gables, would seek the City’s approval for a 162,000 square foot Miami Football Operations Center and a 200,000 square foot parking garage (Dickinson Garage).

“The proposed Football Operations Center would include offices for all Miami football personnel, player locker rooms, a fitness center, team meeting rooms, an alumni lounge, rehab and treatment facilities, a photo studio, media offices, podcast rooms and a simulator room.

“The proposed Dickinson Garage would also feature an 18,000 square foot dining facility. It was part of a previously approved plan and is being relocated and reduced in size from the initially planned 280,000 square feet, in order to accommodate for the Miami Football Operations Center.”

Miami Director of Athletics Dan Radakovich previously discussed the football complex that is expected to have a price tag of around $100 million.

“We’re here to make sure that the student athletes have a great experience, not only in football, but in our other sports as well,” he said. “You have to get five or six approvals to be able to build anything even if you have the money. Okay, so here, there’s approvals and an understanding of how it impacts the campus environment. We want to be good partners with the campus. There’s a finite amount of space here on our campus to be able to work with and each one of the square feet here has to be dedicated to a positive process. So we need to make sure that what we’re what we’re looking to do is going to move the university forward because certainly I can make the case that all of these changes will move the athletic program forward.”

After the approval is granted, if the money is in place the next step will be getting shovels in the ground.

“We have great partners on campus who are working through that who do have (experience) and have built some really good things on campus,” the Miami athletics director said. “So that will help guide us through that. There’s an urgency to move. Yes, there’s absolutely an urgency to raise the money as soon as we can, get the permits as soon as we can. … We have to go out and raise money and then kind of go as fast as humanly possible to get this thing done.”

Here are the renderings:

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