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Baseball Stadium Plan Strikes Out in Suburb

TROY, MI-The city council narrowly rejects a plan to build a $17.5-million minor-league baseball stadium in the city. General Sports and Entertainment is now looking elsewhere.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on January 12, 2005

TROY, MI-By a 4-3 vote, the city council has rejected a plan to enter into a deal that called for a 5,000-seat, $17.5-million minor-league baseball stadium to be built in the city. “We’re disappointed but I’m sure there are a number of communities out there who would like to have us,” says Andy Appleby, president of Rochester-based General Sports and Entertainment, which had been proposing the stadium.

“We will aggressively pursue other options,” he adds. Under the proposal, the stadium would have been built on seven to eight acres of city-owned land behind the Troy Marriott, near the Troy Community Center. The deal would have meant the company would manage the stadium, but the city would have owned it, along with the land it sits on.

General Sports officials first pitched the idea in October and wanted a decision by the end of 2004 so the first pitch could have been thrown in 2006. But while the stadium has been touted by some as a great family activity, residents were concerned about noise, traffic and parking.

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