Great American Ballpark
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| Address | 100 Joe Nuxhall Way |
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| Location | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 39°5′51″N 84°30′24″W / 39.09750°N 84.50667°WCoordinates: 39°5′51″N 84°30′24″W / 39.09750°N 84.50667°W |
| Public transit | Broadway & E 2nd Street |
| Parking | 850 spaces |
| Capacity | 42,319 (2008–present) 42,271 (2003–2007) |
| Field size |
Left Field – 328 ft (100 m) Left-Center – 379 ft (116 m) Center Field – 404 ft (123 m) Right-Center – 370 ft (113 m) Right Field – 325 ft (99 m) Backstop – 55 ft (17 m) |
| Surface | Perennial Ryegrass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | August 1, 2000 |
| Opened | March 31, 2003 |
| Construction cost | US$290 million ($378 million in 2016 dollars) |
| Architect | HOK Sport (now Populous) |
| Project manager | Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc. |
| Structural engineer | Geiger/THP Ltd. |
| Services engineer | M-E Engineers, Inc. |
| General contractor | Hunt Construction Group, Inc. |
| Main contractors | RLE Construction, Inc. |
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| Cincinnati Reds (MLB) (2003–present) | |
Great American Ball Park is a baseball stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is the home field of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds. It opened in 2003, replacing Cinergy Field (formerly Riverfront Stadium), their home field from 1970 to 2002. The park's name comes from the Great American Insurance Group.
The ballpark hosted the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The Reds put in $5 million for improvements, which included two new bars and upgraded concession stands.
In 1996, Hamilton County voters passed a ½% sales tax increase to fund the construction of new venues for both the Reds and the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). The Reds and the Bengals had previously shared occupancy of Cinergy Field, but by the mid-1990s, they complained that the multi-purpose stadium lacked amenities necessary for small-market professional sports teams to compete and each lobbied for venues of their own. Nearby Paul Brown Stadium broke ground in 1998 and was opened on August 19, 2000.
Great American Ball Park was built by the architectural firms Populous (then HOK Sport) and GBBN at a cost of approximately US$290 million. It is located on the plot of land between the former site of Cinergy Field and US Bank Arena; it was known locally as the "wedge". The limited construction space necessitated the partial demolition of Cinergy Field. It was fully demolished on December 29, 2002.
The original address of Great American Ball Park was 100 Main Street. However, after the death of former pitcher and longtime broadcaster Joe Nuxhall in 2007, the address was changed to 100 Joe Nuxhall Way. A sign bearing Nuxhall's traditional signoff phrase "rounding third and heading for home" is located on the third base side exterior of the park. The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum is adjacent to Great American Ball Park. In honor of Crosley Field, the Cincinnati Reds' home park from 1912 to June 1970, a monument reminiscent of the park's infamous left field terrace was built on the main entrance plaza on Joe Nuxhall Way; statues of Crosley-era stars Nuxhall, catcher Ernie Lombardi, first baseman Ted Kluszewski, and outfielder Frank Robinson are depicted playing an imaginary baseball game.
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