FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A group of Broward County citizens are working hard to give the Florid Marlins baseball team a Fort Lauderdale home.

The group, The Friends of the Marlins, unveiled their plan on Monday for a new stadium that they say could be used for more than baseball.

The plan involves turning Fort Lauderdale stadium into a permanent home for the World Series winning team.

But like previous proposals to build or renovate a stadium for professional baseball in Miami, the Broward plan could come down to dollars and cents.

The Friends of the Marlins' plan sets the price tag for converting the stadium at $200 million. That figure is based on a 35,000-seat stadium.

The group hopes that the City of Fort Lauderdale would provide the stadium itself for free, in exchange for future tax revenues.

To fill in the rest of the ledger, the group said it is taking bids from private firms to take over stadium operations. And the group said it would rely on the $137 million already pledged by the team, plus $15 million from private seating licenses, $18 million from luxury box sales and another $30 million from selling the naming rights to the stadium.

The plan would involved no tax money -- unlike the deal floated in Miami, which involved millions in tourism taxes to help fill the funding gap.

"It would not involve property tax money. Otherwise, I'm not interested in it," said Christopher Pollock of the Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce on Monday.

Miami-Dade commissioners have been working with the team for several months to try and come up with a deal that would involve renaming the team the Miami Marlins. Plans have ranged from building a new stadium on city-owned land, to converting the old Orange Bowl. But all of the plans are expensive, with land acquisition alone adding potentially $150 million to the price tag.

The Broward group said they could compete with Miami.

"We are only in the hole if there is a more attractive stadium that's being proposed," said Chuck Malkus of Friends of the Marlins.

In addition, many Broward fans think that the Orange Bowl is a non-starter.

"The fan base is Broward County, Palm Beach County," said one fan, Joseph Spina of Oakland Park. In fact, some two-thirds of season ticket holders live in Broward and Palm Beach.

And Broward fans cited other problems with locating a new stadium in Miami.

"There is no parking area down there," added Les Barr, president of the Marlins' fan club.

The Friends of the Marlins hope to attract 1,000 people to a pro-stadium rally Tuesday night.

But building a stadium in Broward has potential pitfalls, too.

Broward voters would likely reject any plan that raised property or other taxes, particularly with Fort Lauderdale operating on an extremely tight budget.

And the Marlins have said they want a retractable-roof ballpark -- something that would be impossible at Fort Lauderdale Stadium, since it's located near a major airport.

Also, said Malkus, "a retractable roof adds many, many millions to the price tag."

Building the Marlins a ballpark isn't the only idea on the table. Officials from the Broward County Fair are among three entities who have pitched the idea of taking over the stadium.

Fort Lauderdale commissioners are considering the ideas.

Malkus, who is also the public relations official for the fair, has said the fair and the baseball team could "coexist" in the park.

Reported by Nick Bogert.