Detroit ? The Florida Marlins remain confident they will be able to assemble financing for a new ballpark, according to baseball commissioner Bud Selig.

The team’s latest ballpark plan, 38,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof that would be built adjacent to Miami’s Orange Bowl, came apart this spring. The ballpark has an estimated cost of $420 million to $435 million, and the financing plan included $60 million in state funding.

While money was approved in April by the Florida House, the Florida Senate refused to go along.

South Florida government officials and the team did not meet a June 9 deadline established by Bob DuPuy, baseball’s chief operating officer, for a detailed update on the funding plans.

“They keep saying they still think they’re going to get something done, they need to get something done,” Selig said Tuesday during a pre-All-Star game meeting with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. “If they’re optimistic and hopeful, I am, too.”

Florida’s home attendance average of 22,385 is last in the National League and 27th among the 30 major-league teams, ahead of only Tampa Bay (12,257), Kansas City (18,849) and Cleveland (22,037).

“I’m always concerned about teams that need new stadiums, and it’s obvious they do. That’s not a secret,” Selig said. “Somehow there has to be the political will and the private-sector will to get a stadium built. I mean, they are struggling mightily.”