Dunkin' Donuts Park
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| Location | 1214 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103 |
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| Owner | City of Hartford |
| Operator | Hartford Stadium Authority |
| Capacity | 6,056 |
| Surface | Grass[1] |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | February 17, 2015 |
| Opened | July 2016 (est.) |
| Construction cost | $56 million (approx.) |
| Architect | Pendulum Studio The S/L/A/M Collaborative Newman Architects |
| Project manager | International Facilities Group, LLC[2] |
| Services engineer | BVH Integrated Services, PC[3] |
| General contractor | Centerplan Construction Company |
| Tenants | |
| Hartford Yard Goats (EL) (2016-future) | |
Dunkin' Donuts Park is an incomplete 6,000-seat baseball park in Hartford, Connecticut. It was planned to host the Hartford Yard Goats of the Eastern League when the 2016 season started on April 7th, but numerous constructions delays have postponed this opening and forced the Yard Goats to play the season's first two months on the road. Dunkin' Donuts purchased the naming rights for the stadium for an undisclosed amount. The ballpark is part of a larger $400-million redevelopment plan called Downtown North (DoNo).[4] DoNo will include a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) supermarket, the relocated Thomas Hooker Brewing Company, housing, retail, and restaurants. In December 2015 it was also announced that the development would include the first Hard Rock Hotel in New England; plans call for a rooftop pool and lounge with views of the Hartford skyline. The hotel will include a Hard Rock Cafe, Body Rock workout facility, the Rock Spa and a Rock Shop with branded merchandise.
Construction Delays
In December 2015, it was reported that the project was $10 million over budget, and the park may not be ready for opening day on April 7, 2016. In January 2016, it was confirmed that the Hartford Yard Goats will play their first month of the season on the road because the developers and the City of Hartford can not reach an agreement on how to solve the budget shortfall and finish construction on time. [5] It was announced that the home opener has been delayed by almost two months. The stadium's new opening day will be June 21, 2016. [6]
Due to numerous additional delays during the Winter and Spring of 2016, new target dates of May 17, and later May 31, were set as Opening Day for the Yard Goats at Dunkin' Donuts Park, but work again was not complete on the ballpark in time for the team to move in. Yard Goats home games between May 17 and June 5 were moved to Dodd Stadium in Norwich, CT, a 45-minute drive Southeast of Hartford. The Yard Goats will have to return to playing all games on the road in mid-June, when Dodd Stadium's primary tenant, the Connecticut Tigers of the New York-Penn League, begin their season. Hartford's home series scheduled for June 14-16 has already been moved to the visiting team's ballpark in Reading, PA.
The ballpark is now tentatively scheduled to open on June 21, 2016, but the completion of construction by that date is still uncertain.
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