Future Salt River Spring Training Baseball Facility Location
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The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is partnering with the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks to build a Major League Baseball spring training facility on SRPMIC land, according to the press release announcing the partnership.
The tribe says the MLB facility will include: 11,000 seat stadium, 12 practice baseball fields, club houses, training facilities, team offices, and office buildings. The site is located near Indian Bend Road and the Pima Road.
The Community has selected Mortenson Construction as the general contractor.
The Salt River Tribe says construction is to begin soon with a formal groundbreaking in the middle of November 2009.
The new spring training facility will open spring 2011.
