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News broke on Thursday, September 12th that the San Antonio City Council approved a memorandum of understanding to build a new $160 million minor league baseball stadium in the city’s vibrant downtown area, as reported in the San Antonio Express-News.
The move was made in order for the San Antonio Missions, the Alamo City’s current minor league franchise, to meet a deadline imposed by Major League Baseball (MLB) that required all current minor league teams to meet specific stadium guidelines by Opening Day of 2025. Failing to do so could have cost the Missions and the city their franchise.
Since 1994, the San Antonio Missions have played their home games at Nelson Wolff Municipal Stadium on the city’s west side. The team’s new owners, who purchased the franchise in 2022, have been working with city and county leaders on developing a plan for a new multi-purpose ballpark complex ever since, to meet MLB’s deadline.
If all goes according to plan, funding for the ballpark will be financed by a combination city-county bond sale, which should be completed by November 2025, plus an equity contribution from the Missions ownership group of $34 million. This should allow for the construction and completion of the new stadium by the opening day of 2028.
The new facility will have a capacity of approximately 7,500 to 8,000 – Wolff Stadium currently has a capacity of over 9,000.
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