{"id":407814,"date":"2026-09-23T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407814\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:04:11","slug":"gta-vi-marketing-takes-over-miami-as-welcome-to-vice-city-sign-goes-up-at-kaseya-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407814\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA VI marketing takes over Miami as &#8220;Welcome to Vice City&#8221; sign goes up at Kaseya Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signs of the highly anticipated release of the video game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/grand-theft-auto-army-reenlistment-bonus\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grand Theft Auto VI<\/a> are beginning to appear across Miami, including a massive &#8220;Welcome to Vice City&#8221; message installed on the roof of the Kaseya Center.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 4 flew over the Downtown Miami arena Tuesday afternoon, capturing crews at work installing large pink letters spelling out &#8220;Welcome to Vice City,&#8221; a reference to the fictional city featured in the upcoming Rockstar Games title.<\/p>\n<p>The rooftop display will be visible from above, giving some travelers flying into Miami International Airport a bird&#8217;s-eye view of the promotion. The Kaseya Center, home of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a>, is one of the city&#8217;s most recognizable venues.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what agreement was reached between Rockstar Games and the Kaseya Center for the rooftop promotion.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cbsmiami-vice-city-sign-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-vice-city-sign-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Crews are installing a massive &#8220;Welcome to Vice City&#8221; sign on the Kaseya Center as GTA 6 marketing ramps up across Miami ahead of the game&#8217;s Nov. 19 release.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Miami<\/p>\n<p>The installation comes as Miami prepares for additional GTA VI advertising ahead of the game&#8217;s scheduled Nov. 19 release. More marketing material is expected to appear across South Florida in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Miami commissioners previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/how-miami-miami-beach-and-miami-dade-county-may-market-grand-theft-auto-vi\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voted to allow Rockstar Games to pay for city permits<\/a> that let private entities display banners larger than would normally be allowed. Commissioner Christine King said the promotional banners would not feature graphic material.<\/p>\n<p>King also said revenue from the permits would help fund a trail in Overtown.<\/p>\n<p>GTA VI is set in the fictional state of Leonida and returns the series to Vice City, a fictional setting heavily inspired by Miami and South Florida. The game&#8217;s trailers and promotional material have featured landscapes, architecture and cultural references that closely resemble the region.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cbsmiami-vice-city-sign-kaseya-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-vice-city-sign-kaseya-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Rockstar Games is expected to continue ramping up its GTA 6 marketing campaign in South Florida as the November release approaches.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Miami<\/p>\n<p>The Miami promotion comes after some local governments took different approaches to GTA VI marketing. Miami Beach and Miami-Dade law enforcement previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/miami-dade-grand-theft-auto-partnership-pushback-september-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">declined promotional opportunities tied to the game<\/a>, while the city of Miami moved forward with allowing the larger banners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signs of the highly anticipated release of the video game Grand Theft Auto VI are beginning to appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[69357,123,125,124,11455],"class_list":["post-407814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-grand-theft-auto","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}