Target Field

Target Field
Address 1 Twins Way
Location Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coordinates 44°58′54″N 93°16′42″W / 44.98167°N 93.27833°W / 44.98167; -93.27833Coordinates: 44°58′54″N 93°16′42″W / 44.98167°N 93.27833°W / 44.98167; -93.27833
Public transit Target Field Station
Operator Twins Ballpark LLC
Capacity 39,504 (2010–2012)[1]
39,021 (2013–2015)[2]
38,871 (2016–present)[3]
Record attendance 44,152
(Kenny Chesney July 18, 2015)[4]
Field size Left Field – 339 feet (103 m)
Left-Center – 377 feet (115 m)
Center Field left corner – 411 feet (125 m)
Center Field right corner – 403 feet (123 m)
Right-Center – 365 feet (111 m)
Right Field – 328 feet (100 m)
Surface Kentucky Bluegrass
Construction
Broke ground August 30, 2007
Opened January 4, 2010[5]
Construction cost US$545 million[6]
($592 million in 2016 dollars[7])
Architect Populous
Hammel, Green and Abrahamson
Project manager International Facilities Group, LLC.[8]
Structural engineer Walter P Moore Engineers and Consultants[9]
Services engineer M-E Engineers, Inc.[10]
General contractor Mortenson/Thor[11]
Tenants
Minnesota Twins (MLB) (2010–present)
Minnesota Golden Gophers (NCAA) (2010, 2012)

Target Field is a baseball park located in downtown Minneapolis. It is the home ballpark of the Minnesota Twins, the state's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. It is the franchise's sixth ballpark and third in Minnesota. The Twins moved to Target Field for the 2010 Major League Baseball season after 28 seasons at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is the first facility built specifically for the Twins since the team moved to the Twin Cities in 1961; Metropolitan Stadium was built for the Minneapolis Millers five years before the franchise's first season in Minnesota, and the Metrodome was built as a multipurpose stadium for the Twins, Minnesota Vikings, and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football team. The 2010 season was the first since 1936 in which the franchise (then known as the Washington Senators) did not share their home stadium with an NFL team. The Twins received the certificate of occupancy from Mortenson Construction on December 22, 2009. The Twins staff moved in on January 4, 2010.[12]

The first baseball game at the ballpark took place on March 27, 2010, with a college baseball game between the University of Minnesota and Louisiana Tech. The Twins played two preseason games against the St. Louis Cardinals on April 2 and 3, while the stadium's inaugural regular season game was on April 12, 2010 against the Red Sox.[13]

In 2010, ESPN The Magazine ranked Target Field as the #1 baseball stadium experience in North America.[14]

Target Field hosted the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It was the third time the game was played in the Twin Cities.[15]

Summary

Target Field during the first regular season game in April 2010

The 38,871-seat open-air ballpark is located in the Warehouse District west of Downtown Minneapolis. Designed by Populous with Bruce Miller as principal lead, Target Field is a modern take on other Populous-designed stadiums such as Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, PNC Park in Pittsburgh, and AT&T Park in San Francisco.[16][17] The Twins opted for a "neutral" park which was intended to favor neither hitters nor pitchers; however, following the 2010 regular season, statistics showed that the park definitely played more to the favor of pitchers than hitters.[18] In contrast, the Twins' previous homes in the Twin Cities, Metropolitan Stadium and the Metrodome, were friendly to hitters. Unlike the Metrodome, Target Field is an open-air stadium.

Estimates put the stadium cost at US$390 million, while infrastructure and financing costs bring the total to $522 million. Work on the site began on May 21, 2007, with the official groundbreaking for the stadium taking place August 30, 2007,[19] delayed from the original date of August 2 due to the I-35W bridge collapse.[20] The first concrete slab was poured on December 17, 2007.[21]

The first tour was an open house held on March 20 for season ticket holders. Public tours are available on off-days during the season.

First Pitch at Target Field, thrown by Jordan, Minnesota native T.J. Oakes of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers on March 27, 2010.

The first baseball game played there was on March 27, 2010 between the Minnesota Gophers and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. On that day, 37,757 fans went through the turnstiles from 9:15 a.m. until the conclusion of the game, marking the second-largest attendance for a collegiate baseball game. The largest came on March 11, 2004, when 40,106 fans saw San Diego State and Houston play at Petco Park in San Diego.

Armed Services Appreciation Day, on July 3, 2011. The Twins set a three-game series attendance record (123,385) against the Milwaukee Brewers.

On July 3, 2011, the Twins set a three-game series attendance record (123,385) at Target Field against the Brewers.[22] An attendance record of 44,152 for a single event at Target Field was set on July 18, 2015 during a Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean dual concert.[23] Chesney had also been part of the Target Field's first ever concert in 2012, part of a double-header tour with Tim McGraw.[24]

History

Planning

The site of Target Field, two days before construction commenced on May 21, 2007. The location is bordered by 7th St. N (overpass on left), the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center, 5th St. N (overpass on the right side), and the 394 exits and downtown parking ramp (foreground). The tall red building is the Ford Centre.[25]
The same site as above, approximately one year later (357 days)
The same site as above, 378 days after the previous photo and approximately two years (733 days) since construction commenced

Plans for moving the Twins out of the Metrodome began to take serious shape in the mid-1990s. By 1995, the Twins had found a new site just north of the Metrodome, on a large piece of land next to the Mississippi River.[26] Located in the old Mill District, the stadium would have sat next to the current Guthrie Theater; the cleared land for the stadium eventually became Gold Medal Park, a public park, in 2007.[27] During the 1995 Minnesota legislative session, the proposed Mississippi River-sited stadium would have cost $300 million less than the proposed ballpark which eventually passed the legislature eleven years later.[26]

The Twins underwent turbulent times in the late-1990s and into the new century: in 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad (Greensboro – Winston-Salem – High Point) area. The defeat of a referendum for a stadium in North Carolina and a lack of interest in building a stadium for the Twins in Charlotte killed the deal.

St. Paul, under the leadership of Mayor Norm Coleman, made several attempts to woo the Twins across the Mississippi River. The closest any of these attempts came to success was in 1999, when Saint Paul voters rejected a referendum that would have raised the city sales tax by 0.5% to fund a stadium in downtown St. Paul.[28]

In 2001, the Twins, along with the Montreal Expos (who later became the Washington Nationals), were identified as a target for MLB "contraction" (elimination) by Commissioner Bud Selig after a vote by MLB owners.[29] The contraction plans were shelved after the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling requiring the Twins to play baseball in the Metrodome in 2002, but the pressure spurred the Minnesota House to vote in favor of some stadium legislation, which also garnered support from then-Governor Jesse Ventura.

Legislation and funding

A state law passed in 1997 requires that when a county seeks to raise its sales tax, the question is put before the voters. The law also allows a county to seek permission from the state to enact the tax without a voters' referendum. The Minnesota Legislature did not act on the bill during the 2005 session.

On April 26, 2005, the Twins and Hennepin County announced that a deal had been reached in which the Twins would pay roughly ⅓ of the stadium's cost ($125 million), with the rest being paid for by a 0.15% Hennepin County sales tax. The deal needed approval by the Hennepin County Board. After delaying the vote one week, on May 3 the Board voted 4–3 in favor of the stadium deal. Minneapolis mayor R. T. Rybak (DFL) had already weighed in in favor of the stadium. The plan passed its second hurdle on May 9, 2005, when a House committee of the Minnesota Legislature approved a bill to get around the referendum on a 17–5 vote. This legislation languished before the full legislature, during a particularly gridlocked session, and was placed on the back burner, pending resolution of "more pressing" legislation. Naming rights belong to the Minnesota Twins.

In the 2006 session, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed the bill that would allow the team and county to go around the referendum. The Minnesota Senate also passed a version of the bill, but their version would also have built a stadium for the Minnesota Vikings and funded transit projects. The two bills spent most of the legislative session in conference committee. The bill was passed by a 71–61 vote in the House[30] and a 34–32 vote in the Senate.[31] A ballot referendum, called for by many Hennepin County residents, was deemed infeasible due to the time-critical nature of the bill (a referendum would have had to wait until the November general election, while dates for the Twins to play in the Metrodome in 2007 needed to be applied for by July 1). Under the legislation, $392 million in public subsidy is provided through the Hennepin County sales tax increase for the $522 million project. The final bill was approved on May 21, and was signed into law by Governor Tim Pawlenty, as part of a pregame ceremony before the Twins' May 26 home game against the Seattle Mariners. The final version is substantially identical to the House version, with language relating to both the transit tax and the Vikings stadium stripped.

The County Board approved the ballpark plan 5–2 on June 20, 2006. Commissioners Johnson, Opat, Stenglein, McLaughlin and Dorfman voted to approve the sales tax levy and ballpark funding proposal. Commissioner Gail Dorfman, who opposed the sales tax for ballpark proposal initially as "a bad deal for the taxpayer", switched her voting position, stating that the park was "a done deal and the focus now is on implementing it in the most responsible way possible." Commissioners Penny Steele and Linda Koblick remained opposed to publicly funding a ballpark using a Hennepin County sales tax without a referendum as required by state statute, and to the terms of the funding agreement as "not being in the best interest of the county taxpayers and citizens."

In mid-February 2007, funding and acquisition ran into a snag because the land purchase price had been negotiated with the owners (Land Partners II) but not properly secured when the State bill was passed. On April 4, 2007, Dave St. Peter, Twins president and the head of the team's ballpark committee, announced that an agreement had been reached that would have the Twins paying a portion of the difference between Land Partners II's asking price and the county's budget for the land. As a result, after a four-month impasse, the Hennepin County board voted on April 10, 2007 to use eminent domain to acquire the land with the Twins helping to cover acquisition costs beyond the county's previous $13.5 million offer.[32] Before construction could begin, the Twins also reached a related agreement with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, which owns property adjacent to the site.[33][34] With the issue over land moving forward, the Twins presented the official design of the stadium on April 12; it had been delayed due to the land dispute.[35]

On May 1, 2007, Hennepin County officially took control of the land after placing $13.75 million into a court escrow account; although the court would still need to officially determine the price of the land in the condemnation process, the Twins agreed to pay any costs beyond the amount deposited.[34] The action assured that the construction of the stadium would begin on June 1, 2007.[36] In late August, a three-member condemnation panel ruled that the parcel was worth $23.8 million; developers had claimed that the fair market value was $65 million.[37] On October 15, 2007, the two sides reached a negotiated settlement of just under $29 million, ending the dispute; as a result the County noted it would have to cut back on some improvements to the surrounding streetscapes, though it also revealed that the Pohlad family had committed another $15 million for infrastructure.[38]

On September 15, 2008, the Twins and Minneapolis-based Target Corporation announced that the ballpark would be named Target Field. Financial terms of the naming rights agreement were not disclosed.[39] The company's investment also funded a pedestrian bridge from the ballpark to downtown, Target Plaza, more seating, canopies and public art.[40]

The ballpark opened for the 2010 baseball season, the Twins' 50th season in Minnesota.

Design

Exterior of Target Field, including a view of the commuter platform at Target Field station.
View of downtown Minneapolis from Target Field, May 14, 2014

Populous, the lead architectural design firm, tried to avoid creating a replica of the old-style brick Camden Yards or modern urban design of the new Nationals Park (both also designed by Populous).[41] Instead, the design for the stadium employs local limestone, heated viewing areas and a heated field.[41][42] The stadium does not have a roof, but there is a canopy above the top deck.[42] The stadium is integrated with the intermodal Target Field station which connects the METRO Blue and Green Line light rail service with the Minneapolis terminus of the Northstar commuter rail line leading from the northwest. Walter P Moore served as the structural engineer for the stadium and canopy.

The stadium does not have a retractable roof, though one was considered initially. Such a roof was cited to add $100 million to the total budget and none of the parties (Twins, Hennepin County or Minnesota Legislature) were willing to pay for that cost. Much like other northern cities with outdoor professional baseball (i.e. Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, New York), the weather in Minneapolis during a 162-game baseball season and playoffs can vary from early-spring snow to rain and hot, humid weather. The Metrodome was climate-controlled, and thus, protected the baseball schedule during the entire time that it had been the venue for the Minnesota Twins. However, many Twins fans and baseball purists argue that this same sterile, climate-controlled environment creates a less-than-desirable atmosphere for watching baseball. The architect also tested the feasibility of heated seats.[43]

The site is about the same size as that of Fenway Park, and the ballpark holds roughly the same number of seats. The site is bounded by 3rd Avenue (southeast, right field, across from Target Center); 5th Street North (northeast, left field); 7th Street North (southwest, first base); Hennepin Environmental Recovery Center [garbage incinerator] and 6th Avenue North (northwest, third base). 3rd Avenue is a westbound one-way street which dips down under the right field seats and serves as a ramp to I-394 westbound. A separate, small westbound segment of 3rd Avenue, connecting 7th Street North with Glenwood Avenue, was renamed "Twins Way". The ballpark's street address, "1 Twins Way", is at the "foot" of the renamed street.

Construction

Mortenson Construction of Minneapolis built the stadium. Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors completed the mechanical contracting. Danny's Construction Company erected the structural steel. Subcontractors involved in the concrete work include CECO Concrete Construction, Gephart Electric, E&J Rebar, Ambassador Steel Corporation, Amsysco Inc., and Nordic Construction/Cemstone.[44]

The concrete portion of construction was completed in November 2008 with a roof deck pour for the Twins administration building. In March 2009 Tekna Kleen (commercial cleaning company), started doing the finishing cleaning touches to Target Field.[45] In late August, 2009, the playing field was installed.[46]

LEED Certification

Target Field was awarded LEED Silver Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, only the second LEED-certified professional sports stadium in the United States, after Nationals Park.[47]

METRO and commuter rail connections

The stadium is well-connected to the city's transit network, being immediately adjacent to the "A" and "B" parking ramps of the large ABC Ramps complex at the end of Interstate 394, which include two major transit bus terminals and link to the rest of downtown Minneapolis via skyway. Using the METRO light rail system, over 8,000 people typically arrive every game via the METRO Blue Line and METRO Green Line which terminates at Target Field Station, just 10 yards from the park's Gate 6. For fans arriving from the northwest suburbs, the Northstar Line commuter rail terminates in downtown Minneapolis with a station underneath the ballpark.

Upgrades

The right field scoreboard, photo taken March 2011.

On February 12, 2008, the Twins announced $22.4 million in upgrades to the original design, increased the Twins ownership stake in the ballpark to $167.4 million, bringing the total ballpark cost to $412 million.[48][49] The upgrades were mainly based around increasing fan experience and comfort. The upgrades included an enlarged canopy soffit (the largest in baseball), protecting fans further from the elements despite the stadium not having a roof. The Twins also upgraded the scoreboard – the fourth-largest in Major League Baseball – from standard definition to a high definition display from Daktronics measuring 101 feet (31 m) long and 57 feet (17 m) high.[50][51] Other upgrades included warming shelters, changing 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of the exterior surface to Kasota stone, and increasing the number of restrooms and concessions areas. The park features a modernized version of the original "Minnie and Paul Shaking Hands" logo used on the team's original uniforms from 1961 until 1986 (the logo has also been on the home uniforms since 2001). When a Twins player hits a home run, the Minnie and Paul sign lights up with strobe lights surrounding the Minnesota state outline and Minnie and Paul shake hands, akin to the Liberty Bell used at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The original flagpole from Metropolitan Stadium – completely restored – is located on the right field plaza. The flagpole was located at the American Legion post in Richfield after the Metropolitan Stadium's closing, and was donated back to the Twins by the Legion as a gesture of goodwill.

On November 10, 2010, the Twins announced a number of upgrades to Target Field, all of which were completed in time for the 2011 season. Highlights among the upgrades included a scoreboard in right-center field and the "Twins Tower" (a 100-foot (30 m) tall illuminated tower), next to the new scoreboard. Other changes include free Wi-Fi service for fans, expanded concession stand menus, and the addition of more radiant heaters and artwork around the ballpark. In total, the changes were expected to cost the Twins $4–6 million.[52]

Additionally, the 14 black spruce trees located in the batter's eye were removed, following hitters' complaints that the trees interfered with the ability to see pitches as they would sometimes sway in the wind.[53] The batter's eye wall itself was covered in a black material designed to reduce glare.[54]

Panorama of Target Field, taken from the concourse inside Gate 29.

Concerts

The first musical concert held at Target Field happened on July 8, 2012, part of the Brothers of the Sun Tour co-headlined by Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals as an opening act.[24] Tickets sold out in four hours,[55] and the 43,897 crowd became a record attendance for the ballpark.[56] Chesney returned the following year with his No Shoes Nation Tour, featuring Zac Brown Band as his opening act.[57] The attendance record was again broken with 43,940 present.[23]

Chesney then again broke the attendance record with 44,152 present on July 18, 2015 as part of a duel concert with Jason Aldean. The duo had almost 85,000 present over two days for the concert.[58]

Starting in 2013, Target Field has hosted every summer the Skyline Music Festival, named so because its seating, with only the seats around third base in an Amphitheatre-like manner, allows for extensive views of the Minneapolis skyline.[59] The inaugural edition was held on July 26, 2013, featuring three of four bands in a package tour – Soul Asylum, Matthew Sweet and Big Head Todd and the Monsters, each of whom played one of their past albums in their entirety – along with Minnesota band Gear Daddies. The 6,752 tickets allowed by the section were sold out.[60] The following edition was extended to two nights. August 8 featured an indie rock night sponsored by KCMP, featuring Andrew Bird, The New Pornographers, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, S. Carey and Dosh.[61] The following night was headlined by Melissa Etheridge, accompanied by the returning Gear Daddies, along with The Honeydogs, O.A.R. and The Rembrandts.[62] Attendance was 2,500 for the first night and 5,500 for the second.[63]

Paul McCartney, who had dropped a possible concert at the stadium in 2011 due to scheduling conflicts, performed a sold-out gig of the Out There Tour on August 2, 2014. It was his fifth concert in Minnesota, which managed to encompass all the Twins' ballparks, given McCartney performed in the Metrodome in 1993 as well as the Metropolitan Stadium with The Beatles in 1965.[64][65] McCartney's tickets numbered 43,143,[66] and were sold out in 20 minutes.[67]

Features

The stadium

Target Plaza

Target Plaza is the gathering area behind the right field gate (Gate 34).

The field

Twins bars and restaurants

At Target Field, there are three prominent bars and restaurants;

A large version of the Twins' original "Minnie and Paul" logo (designed by local artist, Ray Barton [70]) stands in center field. It shows two players wearing the uniforms of the two minor-league teams that played in the Twin Cities before the Twins' arrival, the Minneapolis Millers and St. Paul Saints, shaking hands across the Mississippi River. During various points in the game, the strobe lights surrounding the logo flash. This sign was a concept designed and illustrated by RipBang Studios but built by others.

Park firsts

Opening day (April 12, 2010)

Statistic Player(s)/Team
Score Minnesota Twins 5, Boston Red Sox 2
First Pitch Carl Pavano (Twins)
First Batter Marco Scutaro (Red Sox)
First Hit Marco Scutaro (Red Sox)
First Double Dustin Pedroia (Red Sox)
First Triple Justin Morneau (Twins)
First Run Denard Span (Twins)
First RBI(s) Michael Cuddyer (Twins)
First Strikeout David Ortiz (Red Sox) by Carl Pavano (Twins)
First Home Run Jason Kubel (Twins) (off Scott Atchison, Red Sox, bottom 7th)
First Twins Batter Denard Span
First Stolen Base Denard Span (Twins)
First Double Play 4-6-3: Orlando Hudson to J. J. Hardy to Justin Morneau (Twins)
First Win Carl Pavano (Twins)
First Save Jon Rauch (Twins)
First Loss Jon Lester (Red Sox)
First Walk Denard Span (Twins)

Other firsts

Statistic Date
First Pinch-Hitter Jim Thome (Twins) April 14, 2010 vs. Boston Red Sox
Suspended Game May 25, 2010 vs. New York Yankees
Inside The Park Home Run August 21, 2011 vs. New York Yankees by Curtis Granderson
Twins Grand Slam September 27, 2011 vs. Kansas City Royals by Rene Tosoni
Rainout May 7, 2010 (scheduled vs. Baltimore Orioles)
Doubleheader May 8, 2010 (Day-Night DH vs. Orioles)
Walk-Off HR (and hit) August 17, 2010 vs. Chicago White Sox by Jim Thome
Postseason Game October 6, 2010 vs. New York Yankees
All-Star Game Hosted July 15, 2014 – National League @ American League
Soccer Match Hosted June 25, 2016 – Minnesota United FC vs Club León

Comparison to the Metrodome

Characteristic Target Field H.H.H. Metrodome
Seats 38,871* 46,564**
Lower Deck Seats 19,000 21,621
Private Suites 54 115***
Group Party Suites 12 1
Club Level Seats 7,000 —
Upper Deck Seats 13,468 28,779
Disabled Seating 820 190
Lower/Club Seats
between 1st and 3rd Base		 about 12,037 6,679
Outfield Seats about 6,748 18,594
Seats with Obstructed Views < 200 1,392
Main Concourse 40 feet (12 m),
open to field 		22 feet (6.7 m),
closed to field
Total Restrooms 34 16
*This is the official capacity. However, Standing Room Only (SRO) tickets are available that can increase this capacity by approximately 2,500+.
**6,000 seats were covered by a curtain; these and others made the stadium expandable to 55,883 during baseball playoffs and certain games in the last homestand and one-game playoff in October 2009.
***Controlled by the Minnesota Vikings football team.

Field dimensions are roughly comparable, with the left field area being a few feet closer to the plate, and the center field area being bounded by a 45° facet instead of a quarter-circle.

Target Field has often been referred to as a "pitcher's park" in that it is difficult for batters to hit home runs and the pitcher has an advantage. Twins star Justin Morneau spoke for many of the players' concerns by calling "right-center to left-center... ridiculous" and that it is "almost impossible for a right-handed hitter to [homer to the] opposite field and very difficult for lefties".[71]

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  64. ↑ Paul McCartney to play Target Field on Aug. 2
  65. ↑ Concert review: Paul McCartney brings energy, nostalgia to Target Field
  66. ↑ Hot Tours: Paul McCartney Is No. 1 With Sold Out U.S. Tour
  67. ↑ McCartney sells out Target Field show in 20 minutes
  68. ↑ Visuals big part of trip to Target Field Star Tribune
  69. ↑ Walsh, Paul (August 27, 2010). "Carew Supports Griffith Statue Being Placed Near His Target Field Gate". Star Tribune. Minneapolis. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  70. ↑ "Ray Barton obituary". Harris family genealogy site. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  71. ↑ "Justin Morneau Laments Target Fences". ESPN. November 12, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
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