Stadium's Plans for Waterpark Could Make a Big Splash

Sun Life Stadium will say goodbye to the Florida Marlins in 2012 - they're moving to a new facility in Little Havana - but the home of the Miami Dolphins, University of Miami football and the FedEx Orange Bowl may get a new neighbor around the same time. Miami Dolphins owner and real-estate developer Steve Ross wants to turn a 40-acre parking lot next to Sun Life Stadium into an elaborate 20-acre waterpark with an adjacent 20 acres for parking.

The facility - estimated to cost "tens of millions of dollars," officials say, and expected to feature private cabanas and a "swim with the fish" pool when it would open in spring 2012 - would be South Florida's first major water attraction since Hollywood's Atlantis the Water Kingdom closed in 1992. A zoning change from office use to an "unusual" designation must be approved by the Miami-Dade County Commission, according to The Miami Herald.

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