ShoreTown Ballpark
Baseball stadium in Lakewood, New Jersey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ShoreTown Ballpark[1][9] is a stadium in Lakewood, New Jersey. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Jersey Shore BlueClaws South Atlantic 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 fixed seats with extended additional space on grass berms and at picnic tables around the 360-degree concourse.
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Former names | FirstEnergy Park (2002–21) GPU Energy Park (2001) |
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Address | 2 Stadium Way Lakewood, NJ 08701 |
Coordinates | 40°4′31″N 74°11′12″W |
Owner | Shore Town Baseball[1] |
Capacity | 6,588 reserve seats plus additional space on berms |
Field size | Left: 325 ft (99 m) Center: 400 ft (120 m) Right: 325 ft (99 m) |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Broke ground | April 17, 2000[2] |
Opened | April 6, 2001 (2001-04-06)[3] |
Construction cost | $20 million[4] ($33.1 million in 2023 dollars[5]) |
Architect | HNTB[4] |
Project manager | Hill International[6] |
Services engineer | Henderson Engineers, Inc.[7] |
General contractor | Epic Group, Inc.[8] |
Tenants | |
Jersey Shore BlueClaws (SAL/High-A East) 2001–present |
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