Groundbreaking ceremony makes it official: The local Dodgers affiliate is headed to Ontario in 2026, columnist David Allen writes, along with 190-acre sports complex.
Dignitaries look over the site of the baseball stadium currently under construction which will be the home of a Los Angeles Dodgers minor league team at the Ontario Empire Sports complex in Ontario on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024 following a ceremonial ground breaking at the site. The 190-acre complex, set for completion in 2026, will be the largest such facility west of the Rockies and will house a new baseball stadium which will field a minor league team of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Shovels sit at the waiting prior to a ceremonial ground breaking at the already under construction site of the Ontario Empire Sports complex in Ontario on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. The 190-acre complex, set for completion in 2026, will be the largest such facility west of the Rockies and will house a new baseball stadium which will field a minor league team of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The complex will also have multiple baseball, softball and soccer fields.
Heavy equipment move material at the Ontario Empire Sports complex in Ontario on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. The 190-acre complex, set for completion in 2026, will be the largest such facility west of the Rockies and will house a new baseball stadium which will field a minor league team of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The complex will also have multiple baseball, softball and soccer fields.
I drove to the event from Claremont on a route that helps illustrate the site’s relative remoteness. Google directed me south on semi-rural Ramona Avenue to the 60 Freeway. Exiting on Vineyard Avenue, I headed south to Riverside Drive, itself largely undeveloped. Ontario officials had approached Miles about its desire for a team and he walked them through the process. Major League Baseball had the final say about sanctioning a team and choosing the affiliation.It will be up to MLB to announce the new affiliation for the Quakes starting in 2026. Everybody knows it’s going to be the Angels. In the meantime, “we know in 2025 the Dodgers will still be in Rancho Cucamonga,” Miles said.
The 8,000-seat ballpark will be designed by Populous, the sports architecture firm behind Baltimore’s Oriole Park at Camden Yards and the current version of Yankee Stadium — the one where the Dodgers are clobbering the home team.
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