The new Marlins Ballpark, located in Little Havana, Miami’s largest and most diverse neighborhood, opened in this past April. Situated atop the former location of the Orange Bowl, the $515 million, 928,000-sf LEED Gold ballpark pays tribute to Miami’s art deco heritage and grand majestic architecture, as well as its Caribbean influence and proximity to the Atlantic Ocean.
TOP 25 SPORTS FACILITIES SECTOR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
| Rank | Company | 2011 Sports Facilities Revenue ($) |
| 1 | Populous | 81,200,000 |
| 2 | HKS | 15,181,855 |
| 3 | Gensler | 11,500,000 |
| 4 | Heery International | 9,080,000 |
| 5 | HNTB Architecture | 7,626,938 |
| 6 | DLR Group | 7,500,000 |
| 7 | Perkins+Will | 5,897,764 |
| 8 | Solomon Cordwell Buenz | 5,000,000 |
| 9 | Wight & Company | 4,932,700 |
| 10 | EwingCole | 4,000,000 |
| 11 | PBK | 3,140,000 |
| 12 | NBBJ | 2,681,000 |
| 13 | Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Assoc. | 2,612,714 |
| 14 | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | 2,044,000 |
| 15 | IBI Group | 1,848,450 |
| 16 | Sasaki Associates | 1,812,490 |
| 17 | ZGF Architects | 1,698,520 |
| 18 | Good Fulton & Farrell | 1,369,740 |
| 19 | Gould Evans | 1,246,000 |
| 20 | Tetra Tech Architects & Engineers | 1,200,000 |
| 21 | HDR Architecture | 1,000,000 |
| 22 | BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers | 930,000 |
| 23 | LPA | 926,812 |
| 24 | Rosser International | 803,000 |
| 25 | KZF Design | 780,871 |
TOP 25 SPORTS FACILITIES SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS
| Rank | Company | 2011 Sports Facilities Revenue ($) |
| 1 | Aecom Technology Corp. | 217,000,000 |
| 2 | Thornton Tomasetti | 14,880,000 |
| 3 | URS Corp. | 14,000,000 |
| 4 | Jacobs | 8,310,000 |
| 5 | WSP USA | 6,500,000 |
| 6 | Stantec | 6,345,000 |
| 7 | Magnusson Klemencic Associates | 5,299,453 |
| 8 | Walter P Moore | 4,664,444 |
| 9 | Smith Seckman Reid | 4,100,000 |
| 10 | Henderson Engineers | 3,000,000 |
| 11 | Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor | 2,300,000 |
| 12 | Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates | 2,204,000 |
| 13 | Dewberry | 1,893,804 |
| 14 | L.R. Kimball, a CDI Company | 1,482,000 |
| 15 | Simpson Gumpertz & Heger | 1,380,000 |
| 16 | TLC Engineering for Architecture | 1,337,385 |
| 17 | French & Parrello Associates | 1,269,167 |
| 18 | Guernsey | 1,045,269 |
| 19 | Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering | 1,004,000 |
| 20 | KPFF Consulting Engineers | 1,000,000 |
| 21 | TTG|TMAD Taylor & Gaines | 925,200 |
| 22 | Clark Nexsen | 856,991 |
| 23 | Birdsall Services Group | 850,000 |
| 24 | Environmental Systems Design | 830,000 |
| 25 | RMH Group, Inc., The | 816,401 |
TOP 25 SPORTS FACILITES SECTOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
| Rank | Company | 2011 Sports Facilities Revenue ($) |
| 1 | Turner Corporation, The | 560,933,000 |
| 2 | Hunt Construction Group | 537,500,000 |
| 3 | Mortenson Construction | 293,720,000 |
| 4 | PCL Construction Enterprises | 284,986,506 |
| 5 | Manhattan Construction Group | 150,698,000 |
| 6 | Barton Malow | 121,621,680 |
| 7 | Tutor Perini | 119,151,000 |
| 8 | Bernards | 85,000,000 |
| 9 | Flintco | 65,400,000 |
| 10 | Webcor Builders | 63,165,105 |
| 11 | Austin Industries | 63,059,963 |
| 12 | Suffolk Construction | 44,306,488 |
| 13 | Balfour Beatty US | 42,992,640 |
| 14 | Robins & Morton | 38,500,000 |
| 15 | Hoar Construction | 36,854,000 |
| 16 | CORE Construction | 34,828,992 |
| 17 | C.W. Driver | 33,024,000 |
| 18 | S. M. Wilson & Co. | 24,642,795 |
| 19 | Weitz Company, The | 20,300,000 |
| 20 | Skanska USA | 19,147,583 |
| 21 | Choate Construction | 17,944,119 |
| 22 | EMJ Corp. | 17,735,406 |
| 23 | Yates Companies, Inc., The | 17,100,000 |
| 24 | Hoffman Corp. | 15,748,494 |
| 25 | Linbeck Group | 15,000,000 |
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