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Location | 1809 Meridian Ave. Miami Beach, FL |
Coordinates | 25°47′39″N 80°08′09″W / 25.79417°N 80.13583°W |
Area | South Beach, FL |
Established | 2019 |
Designer | West8 |
Budget | $9.5M |
Pride Park is a 5.8-acre (2.3 ha) park in Miami Beach, across from the Miami Beach Convention Center. [1] The park was named to show community support for the LGBTQ community as well as civic pride for the Miami Beach community. [2] [3]
Pride Park is part of the Miami Beach City Center Campus in the Miami Beach Convention Center district. [1]
The park is host to a number of events including the Miami Boat Show, Art Basel events and an outdoor film series. [4] [5]
In April 2019, construction started to convert the main convention center parking lot into a 5.8-acre (2.3 ha) park. [6]
On May 3, 2019 groundbreaking was celebrated by the construction firm Critical Path, City Commissioners, the Mayor of Miami Beach and others at a public event. [7]
During Art Basel Miami in 2022, Irma and Norman Braman donated the 16-foot (4.9 m). tall Minna sculpture by Juame Plensa to the park. [8] [9]
The park contains over 500 trees, a public park, including a tropical garden, game lawn, shaded areas, veterans’ plaza, and a number of public art projects including two public art sculptures, Elmgreen & Dragset’s Bent Pool, 2019 and Juame Plensa's Minna, 2022. [1] [10]
One of the first events held at the newly opened Pride Park in December 2019 was Design Miami which is held during Art Basel Miami. [11] The park is also host to a number of events for the annual Miami Beach Pride celebration each year. [12]
Some of the events held at Pride Park include:
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