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Miramar’s new venue
Fourth of July concert includes fireworks display
A concert will be the first event at the city’s amphitheater.
Miramar’s amphitheater is officially ready to open with a bang.
A free Fourth of July concert will be the first event at the city’s newest venue, the Miramar Amphitheater at Regional Park, and it will be capped off with a fireworks display.
The $7.4 million outdoor entertainment destination, planned since 2013, will be used to host concerts and festivals. It features a covered stage and seating, a sodded promenade, a network of lighted walkways, projection screens, a parking area and other amenities.
The venue, at 16801 Miramar Parkway, fits 5,000 people — 3,000 covered under the canopy and 2,000 more behind the canopy on the promenade.
Natasha Hampton, the assistant city manager, said the amphitheater is envisioned as an attraction that adds to Broward’s “collateral” to attract tourism. Her ideas include potential boxing matches or perhaps grand quinceañera parties.
“That was the really overall goal of this commission, to make this a destination,” she said, for sports, arts, entertainment, culture.
“It gives Miramar that edge,” she said. There’s an “enormous space to be creative.”
The next booking so far is the Latin Music Festival scheduled for Latin Heritage Month in September.