SAN ANTONIO – The City Council will discuss a proposal to build a new baseball stadium for the San Antonio Missions downtown on Wednesday.
The proposed plan would be a joint effort between the city, Bexar County and the team’s ownership group. According to the city, the proposed stadium would be a multi-purpose baseball stadium with about 4,500 permanent seats and about 7,500 total seats.
According to an agenda item for Wednesday’s meeting, the project’s cost would be estimated at $160 million. The project would be financed through a public-private partnership that includes a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone bond that would be repaid through team revenues and new developments around the proposed facility.
The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 2 p.m. KSAT will cover the meeting on its newscasts at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.
The team currently plays at Nelson Wolff Stadium, which opened in 1994. It has approximately 9,200 seats and a grass area in left field.
In 2022, Major League Baseball increased Minor League Baseball facility requirements. The team’s ownership group said Nelson Wolff Stadium would need significant renovations to meet those requirements. The group has said it would prefer a new downtown ballpark.
In July, Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai and Mayor Ron Nirenberg sent a letter to Major League Baseball expressing the county and city’s intent to work with the Missions to build a downtown baseball stadium. The letter said the goal is to have the ballpark open no later than 2028.
The Missions currently have a lease to play at the city-owned Nelson Wolff Stadium through 2031.
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