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Downtown ballpark

By Staff Reports
Published: 12/3/2008  5:34 PM
Last Modified: 6/2/2009  5:50 PM
The push for a stadium downtown, Tulsa Stadium Trust Chairman Stan Lybarger said, was more for revitalization purposes than baseball, a strategy that has proven successful with Oklahoma City's ballpark in Bricktown.

The trust is overseeing a $60 million project that includes construction of a 6,200-seat stadium to house the city's Double-A baseball team, the Tulsa Drillers, and the acquisition of adjacent properties for mixed-use development.








Multimedia:



View a live feed of the construction of ONEOK Field.

View a timeline of the history of baseball in Tulsa.

View a PDF of the plans for the concourse level of the stadium.

View a PDF of the plans for the service level of the stadium.

View a PDF of the plans for the suite level of the stadium.

View a PDF of the plans for the press level of the stadium.

View a PDF of the Tulsa Drillers lease agreement.

Read the latest version of the Tulsa Stadium Trust.

Read the city of Tulsa’s response to 30 questions about the downtown ballpark proposal.

Watch a slide show of what the proposed ballpark will look like.



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Site secured for new downtown stadium.

Stadium trust OKs lease with Drillers.

Stadium trust OKs 30-year lease with Drillers.

Ballpark could get thrown a curveball.

Council approves stadium trust.

Questions plague looming stadium trust vote.

Vote not violation of state ethics law.

Delay in stadium trust is possible.

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Changes to stadium trust reassure council.

Drillers lease OK'd in principle.

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By Staff Reports

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Reader Comments 4 Total
jman1002 (3 years ago)
How can the parent(ONEOK)of a regulated utility (ONG)by the naming rights to a ball park?
clun9522 (3 years ago)
Is this really necessary? I have to say that moving the drillers downtown just seems ludicrous when considering our present economy. What's wrong with where they are at now? How much of a difference will this 'revitalization of downtown' really make? I don't see this making a big difference in the long run. Why not throw 60 million at education... where it needs to go in Oklahoma. Good lord.
chevyguy (3 years ago)
The article says this will be a 6,200 seat stadium. If you click on the multimedia image the information there says it will be a 62,000 seat stadium. Which is correct?
Ric (3 years ago)
I don't think 62,000 people will fit in to downtown, nor will 6200 drive downtown to the stadium. You can just already see yourself in a massive traffic jam.
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