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American Family Field
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 American Family Field (then Miller Park) in 2018 | |
  American Family Field Location in Wisconsin  American Family Field Location in the United States | |
| Former names | Miller Park (2001–2020) |
|---|---|
| Address | 1 Brewers Way |
| Location | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Coordinates | 43°1′42″N 87°58′16″W / 43.02833°N 87.97111°W |
| Owner | Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District[1] |
| Capacity | 41,900[2] |
| Record attendance | 46,641 (Concert; George Strait; June 3, 2023)[citation needed] baseball: 46,218 (September 6, 2003, Cubs vs Brewers) |
| Field size | Left Field – 342 feet (104 m) (2021 posted 342, original 344 feet) Left-Center – 371 feet (113 m) (Not Posted) Center Field – 400 feet (122 m) Right-Center – 374 feet (114 m) (Not Posted) Right Field – 337 feet (103 m) (345 posted) Backstop – 56 feet (17 m)  |
| Surface | Kentucky Bluegrass |
| Scoreboard | 1080 display, 5,940-square-foot (552 m2) video board, 55 feet (17 m) high x 110 feet (34 m) wide |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | November 9, 1996 |
| Built | 1996–2001 |
| Opened | April 6, 2001 |
| Construction cost | US$400 million ($688 million in 2023 dollars[3]) |
| Architect | HKS, Inc. NBBJ Eppstein Uhen Architects |
| Project manager | International Facilities Group, LLC.[4] |
| Structural engineer | Arup/Flad Structural Engineers[5] |
| Services engineer | Arup/Kapur & Associates[5] |
| General contractor | HCH Miller Park Joint Venture (Hunt Construction; Clark Construction; Hunzinger Co.)[6] |
| Tenants | |
| Milwaukee Brewers (MLB) 2001–present | |
American Family Field is a retractable roof stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Located southwest of the intersection of Interstate 94 and Brewers Boulevard, it is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers. It opened in 2001 as a replacement for Milwaukee County Stadium. The stadium was previously called Miller Park as part of a $40 million naming rights deal with Miller Brewing Company, which expired at the end of 2020.
American Family Field features North America's only fan-shaped convertible roof, which can open and close in less than 10 minutes. Large panes of glass allow natural grass to grow, augmented with heat lamp structures wheeled out across the field during the off-season.
The stadium opened in 2001 at a cost of $392 million. Between 1996 and 2000, taxpayers paid $609 million for the construction costs through higher sales taxes.[7] In 2023, Wisconsin lawmakers entered into an agreement with the Milwaukee Brewers to spend nearly half a billion dollars of public funds on stadium renovations.[8]
- ^ "Summary of the Stadium District". Retrieved April 22, 2022.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
factswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ "Miller Park". Projects. International Facilities Group, LLC. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ a b "ARCHITECTS-CONTRACTORS-AND-SUBCONTRACTORS-OF-CURRENT-BIG-FIVE-FACILITY-PROJECTS". Sports Business Journal. Street & Smith's. July 24, 2000. Archived from the original on June 22, 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
- ^ "Miller Park". www.ballparks.com.
- ^ "Does Wisconsin own the stadium where the Milwaukee Brewers play?". MinnPost. August 18, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
- ^ "Wisconsin state Senate approves downsized Milwaukee Brewers stadium repair bill". AP News. November 14, 2023.
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