Campbell's Field
 
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| Location | 401 North Delaware Avenue Camden, NJ, United States |
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| Owner | Camden County Improvement Authority |
| Capacity | 6,700 |
| Field size |
Left field 325 feet (99 m) Center field 405 feet (123 m) Right field 325 feet (99 m) |
| Surface | grass |
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| Broke ground | June 15, 1999 |
| Opened | May 11, 2001 |
| Construction cost | $25 million |
| Architect | Clarke Caton Hintz |
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Camden Riversharks (AL) (2001–2015) Rutgers–Camden (NJAC) (2001–present) Saint Joseph's (A-10) (2009–2011) A-10 Tournament (2008, 2010, 2011) Temple (AAC) (2014) |
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Campbell's Field is a 6,425-seat baseball park in Camden, New Jersey, United States that hosted its first regular season baseball game on May 11, 2001. The ballpark is home to the Rutgers–Camden college baseball team, and until 2015 was home to the Camden Riversharks of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. The naming rights are owned by the Camden-based Campbell Soup Company, which paid $3 million over ten years.
The park, located at Delaware and Penn Avenues on the Camden Waterfront, features a commanding view of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge connecting Camden with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania across the Delaware River. Views of the Philadelphia skyline are seen from the right-field grandstand and via "Campbell's Field Cam", a stationary weather camera, are broadcast on KYW-TV.
Ground was broken for the ballpark on June 15, 1999, with former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman in attendance. Campbell's Field was funded by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, a loan from the Delaware River Port Authority, a grant from Rutgers University, and private financing obtained by the builder, Quaker Construction. During construction, the stadium was owned by the Cooper's Ferry Development Association. Upon completion, it became the property of Rutgers, which signed a lease with Camden Baseball, LLC to operate the stadium in conjunction with the Atlantic League.
The new ballpark involved a $24 million construction project that included $7 million for environmental remediation costs. Prior to construction, Campbell’s Field was a vacant, undeveloped parcel of land that historically housed businesses that included the Campbell Soup Company Plant No. 2, Pennsylvania & Reading Rail Road’s Linden Street Freight Station, David Baird & Company’s lumber mill and Eavenson & Sons’ soap manufacturing company.
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