When was joe robbie stadium built

But sometimes families even ultra-wealthy ones end up dumping their businesses to cover the estate tax bill. Case in point: Joseph Robbie, despite his business acumen, made poor decisions when it came to planning his own estate. He clearly intended the business to remain in the family. This meant that everything in his estate would go into the trust at the time of his death and provide his wife, Elizabeth, with income for the rest of her life and then to the named beneficiaries.

Elizabeth Robbie really dropped a bombshell no one saw coming. In September , the trustees asked for a delay in providing her share. The dilemma created tremendous bitterness and resentment within the family and effectively destroyed everything Robbie had spent his life working for.

All of this could have been avoided with a different estate planning strategy that included some more complicated trust structures and some life insurance. For years around this time, the Dolphins and Hurricanes played games on top of the dirt infield for Marlins games.

They joined the Oakland Coliseum in this infield-dirt-on-a football-field trend. This stopped when the Marlins got their own ballpark in They also played football at that ballpark for a time, but the Miami Beach Bowl has since moved to Frisco, Texas. We kind of view that as an advantage for us. In order to accommodate baseball several changes were made at Sun Life Stadium. On April 5, , the Florida Marlins played their first game at the stadium. Three main levels, consisting of 75, orange and teal seats surrounded the playing field.

The majority of the seats in the upper deck, except behind homeplate were closed for baseball, giving Sun Life Stadium a seating capacity of just over 36, At various times throughout the Marlins tenure at Sun Life Stadium tarps have covered many of the upper decks to lessen the effect of having empty seats during the baseball season.