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| Address | 4800 NW 37th Avenue Hialeah, Florida United States |
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| Owner | Avra Jain |
| Field size | 190,000-square-feet |
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| Built | 1946 |
| Opened | 2022 |
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Factory Town is a concert venue in Hialeah, Florida, a suburb of Miami located in an old abandoned factory. The venue is operated by Link Miami Rebels, which also owns and operates the nearby Club Space. [1]
Factory Town is located in the formerly abandoned and Dixie Bedding mattress factory which was built in 1946 and employed 200 people at one time and primarily worked as a contractor to the United States Army to provide bedding for troops. [2]
Avra Jain who bought the site in order to make the youth of Hialeah, who had been moving out of the city in large numbers, interested in staying. [3] [2] She sought to provide a concert space in the greater Miami region and to be a competitor to Wynwood. [2] Jain chose to retain most of the structural integrity of the factory for its industrial aesthetic but stripped away the roof to make the venue open air. [4] A large kapok tree in the middle of the site was retained to create an ecological garden. [4] Factory Town also has no master plan, allowing visiting acts to design the layout of the performance as they wish. [2]
The venue would become part of the Leah Arts district, located between two Tri-Rail stations. [5]
Shortly after its inception, the neighboring city of Miami Springs sued the venue for noise complaints. [2] However, Hialeah's city government has voiced strong support for the venue. [2] Miami Springs has described the venue and it's concerts as "nuisances" and "a significant annoyance" and claimed that there where 243 noise complaints claiming that residents "feared for their safety." [6] Miami Springs demanded Factory Town “abate all noise entering the [city]”. [7] However, since the venue is not located in Miami Springs, the city has instead sought legal action in Miami-Dade County courts. [6] Jain claimed that she had never received any letter of complaint from Miami Springs, and first learned of their grievances when they filed suit against Factory Town. [7] Hialeah's mayor Esteban “Steve” Bovo stated that he would address the concerns, but that he was also upset with neighboring municipalities "dictating what we can and can’t do in our city." [8]
The lawsuit from Miami Springs was ultimately dismissed after Factory Town hired a sound engineer and put in place measures to reduce the noise. [8] However, this has not stopped locals from complaining about the noise including those from Hialeah and Brownsville. [8]