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Wrigley Field Expansion Plan Heading to Council

CHICAGO-Plans for a five-story parking structure and retail building west of the ballpark along Clark Street, as well as 1,890 new bleacher seats, are endorsed by the plan commission and Commission on Chicago Landmarks.

By Mark Ruda | Updated on March 27, 2005

CHICAGO-The Chicago Cubs will pay $3.1 million for a strip of land running west of Wrigley Field, which will allow the team to build a 400-space parking structure and retail building along the 3600 block of Clark Street. In addition, a planned development recently endorsed by the city’s plan commission allows the team to add nearly 2,000 seats in the left- and right-field bleachers, with new rows jutting over sidewalks along Waveland and Sheffield avenues.

The new seats will increase seating capacity in the second oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball by less than 5%. The five-story parking and retail structure, which likely will include a restaurant, will replace two other buildings, a long-running donut shop and a car wash. Besides parking for the Cubs players, staff and news media, the Clark Street building will include batting cages and pitcher’s mound for the team’s use.

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