Casual Marlins fans rejoice: You can now park close to the stadium without buying a season ticket package.
The team has just begun selling single-game parking passes to Marlins Park's garages and surrounding lots after saying for months they would be reserved for season-ticket holders, players, staff and members of the media.
"There were some spots left over, and we've opened them up to everyone," said Marlins spokeswoman Carolina Perrina de Diego.
The Marlins are charging $15 per spot — a 50 percent bump over what they're paying the city, which owns the parking garages — and are offering space on-property for every home game, except their nationally televised season-opener against the St. Louis Cardinals on April 4.
But for a team that has hyped every detail of its stadium rollout, the Marlins have been uncharacteristically low key about this latest development.
While the link — available at marlins.com/parking — is active, as of noon Thursday, it didn't appear on either the team's homepage or ticketing channel.
Parking around the stadium has been a hot-button issue, both for fans coming to the games and residents of the surrounding neighborhoods. When the Marlins hosted FIU in an exhibition game last Wednesday, the team implemented the policy of only allowing people who paid in advance for parking to use one of the 5,700 on-site spots.
Game-goers were largely unaware of this, and some spent more than an hour hunting for a spot in a remote lot, and then catching one of the city's new trolleys to get to the game. But for games with huge crowds, the on-site spots will likely still sell out, meaning thousands of fans will still need to hunt for parking.
Locals who don't have access to parking lots are angry, complaining that they have lost their on-street parking to Marlins employees.
The Miami Parking Authority is meeting with the community in Marlins Park's centerfield garage Thursday evening to discuss its new plan for the area. This much is known: Six streets surrounding the ballpark — Northwest Third, Fourth and Sixth streets, and 14th, 15th, and 16th avenues — either will be turned in to no-parking zones, residential parking areas, or both.
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