Dunkin Donuts Park
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| Address | 1214 Main Street |
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| Location | Hartford, Connecticut |
| Coordinates | 41°46′17″N 72°40′26″W / 41.77139°N 72.67389°WCoordinates: 41°46′17″N 72°40′26″W / 41.77139°N 72.67389°W |
| Owner | City of Hartford |
| Operator | Hartford Stadium Authority |
| Capacity | 6,121 |
| Record attendance | 6,850 (April 13, 2017) |
| Field size | Left Field: 325 feet (99 m) Left Center: 357 feet (109 m) Center Field: 400 feet (120 m) Right Center: 350 feet (110 m) Right Field: 308 feet (94 m) |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Broke ground | February 17, 2015 |
| Opened | April 11, 2017 |
| Construction cost | $56 million (approx.) |
| Architect | Pendulum Studio The S/L/A/M Collaborative Newman Architects |
| Project manager | International Facilities Group, LLC |
| Services engineer | BVH Integrated Services, PC |
| General contractor | Centerplan Construction Company Whiting-Turner |
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| Hartford Yard Goats (EL) (2017–present) | |
Dunkin' Donuts Park is a 6,121-seat baseball park in Hartford, Connecticut. It hosts the Hartford Yard Goats (Colorado Rockies Double-A affiliate) of the Eastern League. The stadium has a sellout capacity of 6,850, including standing room, which was reached numerous times during its inaugural season of 2017. It was planned to open for the 2016 season on April 7, but numerous constructions delays postponed this opening and forced the Yard Goats to play the entire season on the road. The stadium opened in time for the team's 2017 home opener on April 13.
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). 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. These plans were eventually scrapped.
In December 2015, it was reported that the project was $10 million over budget, and the park might not be ready for opening day on April 7, 2016. In January 2016, it was confirmed that the Hartford Yard Goats would play their first month of the season on the road because the developers and the City of Hartford could not reach an agreement on how to solve the budget shortfall and finish construction on time.
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, Connecticut, a 45-minute drive southeast of Hartford. The Yard Goats returned 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, began their season. Hartford's home series scheduled for June 14–16 was moved to the visiting team's ballpark in Reading, Pennsylvania, home of the Reading Fightin Phils. Later, it was announced the Yard Goats first game in the new park would be on June 21.
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