Team owners say new Snappers stadium could be open by 2012
Plans are back on track for a new stadium for the Beloit Snappers, and club owners say the first pitch at a new ballpark could come as early as 2012.An artist's rendering of the ballpark...
In 2006, the Rock County Board of Supervisors shot downs plans for a project that would have included a new Snappers stadium at the intersection of Avalon Road and Interstate 90/39. Since then, the club's owners and supporters have regrouped and looked at several other sites, said Snappers Chairman Dennis Conerton.
Last year, the club settled on a 20-acre site in Beloit Gateway Business Park.
"We're very confident that we can do this," Conerton said Thursday. "We were confident before, but we never really had a specific site.
"With the Avalon Road site, we were not the driver in what turned out to be a very complicated project. We were an indirect beneficiary in the project."
Conerton and the Snappers organization have long said their present home—Pohlman Field at Beloit's Telfer Park—is inadequate and antiquated for minor league baseball, in which the Snappers play as a Class A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
The city of Beloit owns the Gateway site and proposed it to Snappers' officials, Conerton said.
Consultants have completed architectural and engineering studies of the site.
"The conclusion is that (a new stadium) could be built at this site," Conerton said.
When they break ground, I will use the stadium picture with every story about this.
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