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Baseball Stadium
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Construction Pictures Our new
ballpark to be completed in time for 2008 season
On November 7th Billing's residents approved a
$12.5 million bond issue to build a new minor
league baseball stadium at Athletic Park.
Shortly after the passage of the bond issue City
Council directed the design team of HNTB
Montana, Inc. to move ahead with the project. |
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Existing Cobb Field |
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The new stadium will serve as the Billings
Mustangs, MSU-Billings and American Legion's
home facility as well as a multi-use public
facility for many different types of community
events.
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Demolition of Athletic pool began in mid-March
which will allow for construction to begin on
the new stadium this summer. In September, once
the baseball seasons conclude, the old stadium
will be demolished to make way for the new
playing field. This phasing of construction
activity allows all of 2007 baseball activities
to take place as scheduled. The new stadium
will be completed in time for the 2008 baseball
season.
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Billings' new ballpark will meet the National
Collegiate Athletic Association and the National
Association of Professional Baseball Leagues'
standards for Collegiate and Minor League
baseball. The facility will also be able
to accomodate a wide variety of community
programs including craft fairs,
and other similar community events.
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CITY COUNCIL BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW STADIUM
3/21/2007 |
For more information about this exciting
quality of life project, contact Mike Whitaker,
Parks, Recreation and Public Lands Director at
657-8371. |
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Conceptual drawing of the new stadium |
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The new stadium will seat nearly
4,000 people. When completed it will have
2,571 stadium style flip-down arm-chairs; 45
distributed accessible spaces; aluminum benches
which will seat 520, and space for over 525 to
sit in the grass berm area. |
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Artist's rendering of the new stadium |
