FirstEnergy Park
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| Location | 2 Stadium Way Lakewood, NJ 08701 |
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| Coordinates | 40°4′31″N 74°11′12″W / 40.07528°N 74.18667°WCoordinates: 40°4′31″N 74°11′12″W / 40.07528°N 74.18667°W |
| Owner | Lakewood Development Corporation |
| Operator | Lakewood Development Corporation |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Field size | Left: 325 feet (99 m) Center: 400 feet (120 m) Right: 325 feet (99 m) |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | April 17, 2000 |
| Opened | April 6, 2001 |
| Construction cost |
$20 million ($26 million in 2016 dollars) |
| Architect | HNTB |
| Project manager | Hill International |
| Services engineer | Henderson Engineers, Inc. |
| General contractor | Epic Group, Inc. |
| Tenants | |
| Lakewood BlueClaws (SAL) (2002–present) | |
FirstEnergy Park is a stadium in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Lakewood BlueClaws single A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team. It is also used for outdoor concerts, featuring touring musical artists such as Bob Dylan. It was built in 2001 and has 6,588 seats and seats 8,000 with berm seating.
The team attendance record is 13,003, set on August 26, 2002. FirstEnergy Park has held 13 crowds over 9,000 and 81 crowds over 8,000 in just eight years of play.
FirstEnergy Park was featured in Baseball America's 2009 Great Parks calendar. It was the second time that the home of the Lakewood BlueClaws was highlighted in the calendar.
The ballpark features two general admission, grass seating areas, one in left field and another in right, 20 luxury suites, two party decks, three picnic areas, and a full video scoreboard, with a 23' x 23' video board that can play over 4.4 trillion shades of color in high definition.
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