JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Jaguars and City of Jacksonville today celebrated the grand opening of the new Miller Electric Center, a state-of-the-art 125,000 square-foot facility that will serve as the new home to the team’s football operations. Jaguars Owner Shad Khan was joined by Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan for an official ribbon cutting ceremony and media tour.
“Today is another example of vision becoming reality in Jacksonville,” said Khan. “But what makes this particularly gratifying is the vision certainly wasn’t mine alone. Our community, our city leadership, our football team and Miller Electric – everyone had the same vision and belief that we can do amazing things in Jacksonville. The best is still to come!”
A public-private partnership between the Jaguars and the City of Jacksonville, the Miller Electric Center includes locker rooms, training and medical facilities, office space and a draft room. It is home to two full-size grass practice fields and one indoor field, along with shaded public viewing stands, concession areas and a team store. The team will welcome fans to the new grandstands beginning next week at training camp.
Miller Electric Center Facts and Figures
Development Partners – Jacksonville Jaguars and City of Jacksonville
Naming Rights Partner – Miller Electric Company (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Construction Manager – Haskell (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Architect – ROSSETTI (Detroit, Mich.)
Owner’s Representative – Impact Development Management
18 acres – Entire development site
124,767 sq. ft. – Miller Electric Center building
96,113 sq. ft. – Indoor practice field
4.1 acres – Two outdoor fields
23,563 sq. ft. – Fan amenity area
- The dining hall is over 5,000 square feet in size and will feed players, coaches and staff three meals and two snacks every day. The facility has a full-service kitchen, a gas-fired pizza oven with a teal brick dome and features multiple self-serve and buffet stations including two salad bars, a made-to-order deli station, a grill for proteins, a pasta station, a peanut butter machine and omelet station.
- The team meeting room features auditorium seating for 153 with cushioned DreamSeat recliners. The room is designed with a video screen just over 23 feet wide and 13 feet high for watching film and other presentations.
- The Dream Finders Homes Locker Room includes 91 dedicated individual lockers allowing the full offseason camp roster to fit inside one space unlike the previous stadium locker room. It also features a sauna and steam room alongside showers and restrooms.
- The player lounge adjacent to the locker room includes couches and recliners, televisions, a two-seat barbershop, ping pong table and a Full Swing golf simulator bay. It also features an outside patio.
- The Miller Electric Center weight room is 9,420 sq. ft. with an additional 1,910 sq. ft. upper cardio deck. There are 14-custom designed teal and black, Jaguars-branded Sorinex Base Camp weightlifting racks.
- The indoor field features two hanging goals posts and two scoreboards. The ceiling height offers 71 feet of clearance. This area of the building also has dedicated restrooms for players and staff and additional team support spaces including training and equipment storage spaces.
- The indoor field features Hellas’ Matrix Helix® turf, Geo CoolFill® infill, and a Cushdrain® pad. This same turf system is also being installed along the perimeter at the two outdoor grass practice fields, areas that require more durability to withstand heavy foot traffic.
- The Miller Electric Center training room has 12 treatment tables and six taping tables as well as two full-size medical examination rooms to be utilized by team doctors. There are three in-ground hydrotherapy pools including one hot, one cold and one pool with an underwater treadmill, cameras and monitoring system for therapy.
- A full recovery room offers players options including eight DreamSeat zero gravity massage chairs, one cryotherapy chamber, one float tank, two LED beds and one cocoon pod.
- The training room also supports rehabilitation for injured players with equipment like an AlterG anti-gravity treadmill to reduce body weight in return to running, Keiser performance trainer for resistance training and adjustable height massage tables.
· The two outdoor practice fields include 144,000 square feet of natural hybrid Bermuda grass. There are 64 irrigation heads spaced 50 feet apart for consistent coverage.
· The Miller Electric Center is the first NFL facility to utilize the Motz Group’s AirPAT™ advanced rootzone management system that allows for vacuum drainage after a heavy storm, forced air aeration to cool the field, water recycling, rootzone warming for continued late fall and winter growth and automated and remote system operation.
· There are 2,090 individual seats in the fully-shaded grandstand, which features 9 overhead fans for circulation and an overhead speaker system.
· There are two permanent concession stands; one grab-and-go stand and one kitchen-based stand, all featuring Coca-Cola products. The fan plaza has permanent restrooms, both men’s, women’s and a family restroom.
· A 900 sq. ft. pro shop will be operated by Fanatics. It will be open for every open training camp for ticketed guests, Fridays on home game weeks, and during all home games.
