loanDepot park: The Ballpark and Little Havana

Public transportation directly to the ballpark is limited, and the source says so itself. Free trolleys shuttle fans to and from the Downtown Miami Civic Center area or a train station, on game days only. A "Marlins Shuttle" also operates from Culmer Metrorail station on game days; Culmer's own article lists loanDepot Park among its places of interest, and the station has carried the same name since it opened in 1984.

The Metrorail station nearest the ballpark is UHealth-Jackson, served by the Green Line toward Dadeland South and the Orange Line toward Miami International Airport. The station opened on December 17, 1984 as Civic Center and was renamed on July 12, 2024. Both sources the research first cited for it still carry the superseded name, and neither states which lines call there; the name and the line service published here come from the station's own article, which the verifier fetched and quoted.

On parking, the ballpark has four main parking garages and six surface lots on site, with a combined capacity of approximately 5,600 vehicles. Parking tickets are pre-purchased in the same way as seating tickets, and lots can sell out before game day. No parking price was established by this research and none is published.

The neighborhood is Little Havana, and the ballpark stands on the site of the Miami Orange Bowl, which was demolished in March 2008.

Maximo Gomez Park sits on Calle Ocho, the neighborhood's Eighth Street. It is nicknamed Domino Park, and it has been a gathering place for Cuban immigrants to play dominoes, drink coffee and smoke cigars since the early 1970s. It is named for Maximo Gomez, a general of Cuba's War of Independence, and today it also hosts food tours and art festivals. No exact street number is published for it: only the Calle Ocho location is sourced, and the city and county parks pages that would settle it returned 403 and 404 to automated requests.

The Tower Theater, at 1508 SW 8th Street, is an Art Deco building that hosts the Viernes Culturales — Cultural Fridays — events. Its own website, re-fetched during verification, is a placeholder page headed "Tower Theater Miami — Returns Soon", which identifies the venue as "Miami Dade College's Tower Theater Miami" and directs visitors to the Miami Film Festival for current screenings. That is not a statement that the theater is trading, and it is not a closure notice either — it implies an intended reopening. This guide says neither.

Ball & Chain, at 1513 SW 8th Street, is a historic live music venue originally opened in 1935. The musician Harry Gibson appeared at the Ball & Chain nightclub in Miami on the same bill as Billie Holiday during the Christmas season of 1956. No dedicated encyclopedia article for the venue exists, only passing mentions in others, so the detail of its closure in that era and its later reopening is not established here, and neither are its current hours, ownership or offerings.

Versailles Restaurant, at 3555 SW 8th Street, opened in 1971, founded by Felipe A. Valls Sr., a Cuban exile from Santiago de Cuba — and that founding is confirmed independently of the restaurant's own account, on the encyclopedia's article rather than its own page. It won a James Beard Foundation America's Classics award in 2001, an award published here because a confirmed verdict carries it, though the foundation's own database could not be fetched and the award rests on the encyclopedia's account. For decades the restaurant has been a central gathering place for Miami's Cuban exile community, hosting political fundraisers and rallies, drawing media coverage of events related to Cuba, and receiving visits from U.S. presidents and other politicians.

The South River Drive Historic District lies at the eastern end of Little Havana along the Miami River. The Miami City Commission designated it locally in 1987 and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places later that year, on August 10, 1987. It covers 25 acres and contains 9 historic buildings, developed principally in the first two decades of the twentieth century, and the encyclopedia describes it as the city's oldest extant group of vernacular frame buildings near the Miami River. Which of the contributing buildings, if any, house publicly visitable businesses was not established.

One thing to know about the record behind these five. Four of them — the park, the theater, the music venue and the restaurant — carry no statement about whether they are open, and the reasons differ. The park has no dated source of any kind. The theater's own site says only that it returns soon. The music venue's own site is live, and a business's own site cannot establish that it trades. The restaurant has the strongest evidence of the four and still not enough: an independent account documents a presidential visit on June 13, 2023, which shows it open and operating then, three years before this research. None of that is evidence of closure, and none should be read as any. The historic district is not a business and the question does not apply to it.

The ballpark opened for the regular season on April 4, 2012, on the former site of the Miami Orange Bowl, which was demolished in March

2008. It was named Marlins Park from 2012 to 2020 and was renamed loanDepot park on March 31, 2021, after loanDepot bought the naming rights. Construction cost was reported at $634 million, about $889 million in 2025 dollars, and the ballpark achieved LEED Gold certification on May 25, 2012.

The retractable roof consists of roughly 8,300 tons of steel. How long it takes to open and to close is not published: the item carrying those figures was refuted for giving one number where the source gives two, and the numbers are duration-shaped besides, which this corpus does not publish at all.

The design incorporates a home run sculpture by Red Grooms and a tiled walkway by Carlos Cruz-Diez titled "Chromatic Induction in a Double Frequency". The ballpark's four zone colors — green, red, yellow and blue — are drawn from what the source calls the four bright primary colors of Joan Miro's palette. The finder's item called them pastels, which is a word the same article uses elsewhere for something else entirely, and that reading was refuted.

The franchise began play in 1993 as the Florida Marlins and was renamed the Miami Marlins prior to the 2012 season, as part of an agreement with the park owner, Miami-Dade County, to use the new stadium. Before the move the Marlins shared Sun Life Stadium with the Miami Dolphins; loanDepot park was their first home designed exclusively for baseball.

The club won the World Series in 1997, beating the Cleveland Indians 4-3, and again in 2003, beating the New York Yankees 4-2. The encyclopedia records that the 1997 team was the first to win the World Series as a wild card.