Fayetteville Ballpark

Fayetteville Ballpark
Location Hay Street
Fayetteville, NC 28301
Coordinates 35°03′21″N 78°53′00″W / 35.055914°N 78.883382°W / 35.055914; -78.883382Coordinates: 35°03′21″N 78°53′00″W / 35.055914°N 78.883382°W / 35.055914; -78.883382
Owner City of Fayetteville
Operator City of Fayetteville
Capacity 4,786
Field size Left Field: 319 ft (97 m)
Left-Center Field: 372 ft (113 m)
Center Field: 400 ft (120 m)
Right-Center Field: 382 ft (116 m)
Right Field: 330 ft (100 m)
Surface Grass
Construction
Broke ground August 21, 2017
Opened April 2019
Construction cost $37.8 million[1]
Architect Populous
SfL+a Architects[2]
Structural engineer LHC Structural Engineers, PC[3]
Services engineer Henderson Engineers, Inc.[3]
General contractor Barton Malow[4]
Tenants
Buies Creek Astros (CL) (2019–future)

Fayetteville Ballpark is the working name for a baseball park that is under construction in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It will be the home of the Buies Creek Astros, a Minor League Baseball team playing in the Carolina League. It is scheduled to open in 2019 and will seat up to 4,786 people. The site is immediately surrounded by the Airborne & Special Operations Museum, Fayetteville station, and the Prince Charles Hotel.

History

Fayetteville lacked minor league baseball since the Cape Fear Crocs moved to Lakewood, New Jersey after the 2000 season. The team is now called the Lakewood BlueClaws, the Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.[5]

On August 17, 2016, the City of Fayetteville signed a memorandum of understanding with the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball to keep a Class A team club at the ballpark for 30 years.[6] As part of the deal, Barton Malow contracted 83 percent of the construction to local and Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise contractors.[7]

In conjunction with the ballpark financing, Prince Charles Holdings plans to invest $15 million toward renovating the adjoining Prince Charles Hotel into apartments. The company also intends to invest an additional $60 million toward a hotel, 150 residential units, 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) of retail space, and a parking garage at the same stadium site.[8][9]

Groundbreaking took place on August 21, 2017.[10]

Other uses

Besides being the home field for the Astros affiliate, the ballpark will host the Big South Conference Baseball Tournament as a neutral site, May 21-25, 2019, and again in 2020 and 2021.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Spedden, Zach (March 20, 2017). "Fayetteville Ballpark Budget: $37.8 Million". Ballpark Digest. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Spedden, Zach (January 19, 2017). "Fayetteville Developers Request More Time". Ballpark Digest. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Toon, Kimberly (August 15, 2017). "Invitation to Bid". City of Fayetteville, NC. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ Barksdale, Andrew (February 14, 2017). "Fayetteville City Council Directs Negotiations for Stadium Construction". The Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Cape Fear Crocs Strike Out In Fayetteville". WRAL-TV. Capitol Broadcasting Company. July 7, 2000. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Minor League Baseball Stadium Project". City of Fayetteville, NC. December 13, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Local, Disadvantaged Contractors Scoring Well in Fayetteville Baseball Stadium Bids". The Fayetteville Observer. December 26, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ Barksdale, Andrew (August 15, 2016). "Hay Street baseball stadium: Pivotal vote this week on $35M project". The Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ Barksdale, Andrew (December 13, 2016). "Fayetteville, Houston Astros sign 30-year agreement to bring baseball to downtown". The Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  10. ↑ Speddon, Zach (August 22, 2017). "Fayetteville Breaks Ground on New Downtown Ballpark". Ballpark Digest. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  11. ↑ "New Fayetteville Ballpark Lands Big South Tournament". Ballpark Digest. August Publications. July 19, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
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