Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | June 10, 2019 | Worcester Business Journal 13 A R C H I T E C T U R E & C O N S T R U C T I O N F O C U S Closer Coverage SM means more value, delivered with a personal touch. Our priority is providing Closer Coverage SM for you. At Acadia Insurance, we believe that better coverage means having an in-depth knowledge of your business. This means understanding the risks and uncertainties from your perspective. At Acadia Insurance, this is how we are closer to your business — and to you. We insure businesses large and small: CONSTRUCTION • FARMERS FINANCE & REAL ESTATE • HOSPITALITY INSTITUTIONS • MANUFACTURING PROFESSIONAL OFFICE • RETAILERS SERVICE • TRANSPORTATION WHOLESALERS • WOOD PRODUCTS Durham Bulls Athletic Park (Durham (N.C.) Bulls) 1995* Two office buildings Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark (Oklahoma City Dodgers) 1998* Three hotels Northeast Delta Dental Stadium (Manchester (N.H.) Fisher Cats) 2005 Six-story hotel Fluor Field (Greenville (S.C.) Drive) 2006 Building with rooftop bar Coolray Field (Gwinnett (Ga.) Stripers) 2009 Five-story apartment building Parkview Field (Fort Waybe (Ind.) TinCaps) 2013 Four-story mixed-use building Southwest University Park Two brick buildings inside right (El Paso Chiahuahuas) 2014 field wall Cooley Law School Stadium (Lansing (Mich.) Lugnuts) 2016 84-unit apartment building Segra Park (Columbia (S.C.) Fireflies) 2016 Office building with roof deck Dudy Noble Field (Mississippi State University) 2019 Apartment building SRP Park (Augusta (S.C.) GreenJackets) 2019 Office and apartment building Four Winds Field 121 apartments in brick (South Bend (Ind.) Cubs) 2019 buildings *Year of ballpark opening. Some buildings were added in later years. Sources: Respective teams, news reports, Mississippi State University, The Outfield, The Ivy at Berlin Place Ballpark (team) Year added Buildings overlooking field Buildings offering up-close ballpark views are an "it" feature across Minor League Baseball (and at least one college park), including three opening this year alone. Worcester's planned Polar Park would jump on that trend. Enjoying the view bumper cars, a carousel and – because it's Iowa – a mini cornfield. Nashville's three-year-old ballpark has a mini-golf course and a bar with foosball and ping pong tables and shuffleboard. Isotopes Park in Albuquerque, N.M., has a four-foot-high, 45-degree-angle hill in the field of play leading up to the center field wall, a distant echo of the long-demolished Crosley Field in Cin- cinnati. A park in Frisco, Texas, added a 174-foot-long outfield swimming pool in 2016, and Las Vegas Ballpark opened this year with its own pool. ese days, traditional grandstand seating takes up a smaller portion of ballparks' total capacity. Chukchansi Park in Fresno, Calif., which opened in 2002, removed 1,000 seats for this season to make way for tables where fans can sit and eat without balancing food on their laps. A Fayette- ville, N.C., park opened this year with an outfield section of only rocking chairs. New parks even in the lower levels of the minor leagues have features and costs unlikely a generation or two ago. Two independent league stadiums have opened in the last few years in Minne- sota and just outside Chicago that each cost $63 million. e St. Paul, Minn., park offers space for corporate events and weddings in rooms that wouldn't look out of place at the headquarters of a tech company. Reichard, of Ballpark Digest, said the St. Paul Saints had little choice but to build an eye-catching park with unex- pected amenities because the team has a lot to compete against in the Twin Cities area, with roughly 3.6 million people and eight other professional teams. "ey had to go upscale to compete," he said. W

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