Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced at a Tuesday news conference that the city is exploring possibilities for the future of the roughly 14-acre site and is kick-starting a 60-day design competition to guide its redevelopment.
Those plans, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said, are still in the cards for the neighborhood.The first Bees team played there in 1915 at what later would be called Derks Field, named after John C. Derks, a former Salt Lake Tribune sports editor. Eight decades later, the city agreed to build a new ballpark at the same site to spur a move from the Portland Beavers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
Mendenhall also announced that the city is exploring possibilities for the future of the more than 13-acre site and is kick-starting a 60-day design competition to guide its redevelopment. While Mendenhall said she’s not the expert on whether the Bees’ departure means a path to Utah’s capital hosting major league baseball at some point, she wants to say it does.
“That’s something that’s difficult for a built-out city to compare apples to apples,” she said, “and compete with.”
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