Kaseya Center
Sign in to savesports and entertainment arena in Miami, Florida, USA
Key facts
- Former names
- American Airlines Arena (1999–2021), FTX Arena (2021–2023), Miami-Dade Arena (2023)
- Address
- 601 Biscayne Boulevard
- Location
- Miami , Florida, U.S.
- Owner
- Miami-Dade County
- Operator
- Basketball Properties Ltd.
- Capacity
- Basketball: 19,600;, 16,500 (Without upper levels), Concerts: 5,000–20,021, Hockey: 14,447
- Surface
- Multi-surface
- Public transit
- Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre , MiamiCentral , Freedom Tower , Miami Worldcenter
- Parking
- 939 parking spaces
- Groundbreaking
- February 6, 1998 ( 1998-02-06 )
- Opened
- December 31, 1999 ( 1999-12-31 )
- Construction cost
- US$ 213 million, ($412 million in 2025 dollars )
- Architect
- Arquitectonica , 360 Architecture (formerly Heinlein Schrock Stearns )
- Project manager
- Parsons Brinckerhoff
- Structural engineer
- Thornton Tomasetti
- Services engineer
- Flack+Kurtz
- General contractor
- Morse-Diesel / Odebrecht /Facchina
- Main contractors
- John J. Kirlin, LLC , Simpson Constructors , Crown Corr Inc.
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Encyclopedic overview
The arena interior during the opening ceremony of a 2022 playoff game between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics The arena as seen from Freedom Tower station Kaseya Center is a multi-purpose arena on Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. The arena is home to the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The arena was previously named American Airlines Arena from opening in 1999 until 2021, FTX Arena from 2021 until 2023, and Miami-Dade Arena during an interim period in 2023. Since April 2023, the naming rights to the arena are owned by Kaseya under a 17-year, $117.4 million agreement. The official name of the arena's basketball court is the Pat Riley Court at Kaseya Center.
The arena has capacity for 19,500 people, including 2,105 club seats, 80 luxury suites, and 76 private boxes. Additionally, for more intimate performances, The Waterfront Theater, the largest indoor theater in Florida, is within the arena complex, seating between 3,000 and 5,800 patrons. The theater can be configured for concerts, worship events, family events, musical theatre shows and other stage productions. American Airlines, which has a hub at Miami International Airport, maintains a travel center at the venue.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaseya Center” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.