UWM Field
The first independent professional ballpark in the metropolitan Detroit area, with a capacity of 4,500 fans per game.
UWM Field, formerly Jimmy John's Field, is a ballpark in Utica, Michigan, home to four teams that play in the United Shore Professional Baseball League (USPBL), an independent baseball league. It opened on May 30, 2016.
History
The ballpark is located in downtown Utica, just over twenty miles north of Detroit. UWM Field is owned by General Sports Entertainment (GSE); however, Utica's Downtown Development Authority will own the land it sits on and lease it to them for $1 per year for 30 years. The property was the site of a capped brownfield landfill that served as an unlicensed dump for household waste, that sat vacant the last 80 years.
General Sports created the USPBL. The USPBL is the first independent professional baseball league in the metropolitan Detroit area.
Construction began in June 2015 and the venue opened on May 30, 2016. The cost of the field was $15 million.
Naming rights were originally purchased by Jimmy John's, a sandwich restaurant chain.
In the park's first season it served all three teams as their home field, averaging 3,200 fans per game with over 200,000 fans total.
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