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Team gets new name, new price tag for stadium
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Published: December 4, 2008
Updated: 12/04/2008 01:51 pm
Winston-Salem's new baseball stadium may not be finished by opening day of the 2009 season, Billy Prim, the team's owner said today.
The stadium, which is going up at Second Street and Peters Creek Parkway, will also likely cost about $16 million more than expected, he said. Prim said the additional money would be for expansions to the field that were not part of the original design.
Initially, the team said that the stadium would cost about $22.6 million to build and would be finished by April 2009. Prim said today that it would cost about $38 million and that it likely would not be finished by April.
"We fully expect to play in the new stadium in 2009," Prim said.
Prim did say that it would be finished by 2010. The city contributed $12 million up front for the project. If the stadium is not complete by March of 2010, the stadium owners will be forced to pay that money back.
Prim said the delays in the construction were caused by restructuring of the ownership of the team. The team announced last week that Prim, the local entrepreneur who started Blue Rhino and Primo Water Corp., will take ownership from his partner and brother-in-law, Andrew J "Flip" Filipowski, who owns SilkRoad Technologies Inc.
"The stadium exact day depends on when we can finish ownership restructuring and agreement," Prim said. "It may mean that … the stadium does not open on the day you might think."
The team also announced its new name, The Dash.
The name is one of five that came from a communitywide contest to pick the new mascot of the city's high-A minor league team. The others were Rhinos, Aviators, Wallbangers and Racers
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