Miami City Hall at Dinner Key, former terminal of Pan Am.
Miami Herald File
Miami plans to relocate City Hall from the iconic 1931 Pan American Airways seaplane terminal in Coconut Grove to a new building at Miami Freedom Park near Miami International Airport. The move leaves the future of the historic Pan Am building on Dinner Key uncertain.
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Here are key takeaways:
A rendering showing the interior of the Miami City Commission chambers located in the new city administration building. City of Miami
• The new administrative building at Miami Freedom Park will include City Commission chambers, the city clerk’s office and commissioners’ offices. Assistant City Manager Asael Marrero told the Miami Herald it should be “fully functional and fully operational” by early 2028.
• Miami Freedom Park is home to Inter Miami’s Nu Stadium, which has a grand opening set for April 4. The new city building, currently under construction, will replace the city administration’s downtown Riverside Center campus, which has been declared “functionally obsolete.”
• The city purchased the Pan Am building and its land in 1946 and converted the former seaplane terminal into City Hall in 1954. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
• No plans exist yet for the historic building’s future, city officials said. “To be honest with you, I don’t know what the future for that space is,” Marrero said. Andrew Frey, director of the city’s Department of Real Estate & Asset Management, said there have not been conversations about selling or leasing it.
• The city is also considering moving Miami Police Department headquarters to the Freedom Park site, pending results of a traffic study. The commission approved legislation related to the potential move in December.
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