![]() Renderings courtesy RDG Planning & Design. If funding is finalized within a reasonable time frame, we could see an opening in three or four years, with construction beginning as soon as August 2024. Other potential funding sources are Travel Dubuque and the city of Dyersville. We are not likely to see the entire $50 million price tag picked up by the state: we have already heard talk of other potential sports facilities being discussed using Destination Iowa funding, and there are already plans to solicit private funding for the project. Bring your youth team or organization out to Blue Wahoos Stadium for an unforgettable experience with our Field of Dreams Package Your youth team will have. Besides $5 million in seed money from Dubuque County’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) revenue, funding could come from Destination Iowa, a new state initiative using $100 million in ARPA money to promote tourism. nonprofit, separate from the Go the Distance owners, which would lease the ballpark site to the new group. The ballpark would be run by a new This is Iowa Ballpark Inc. We would also expect some talk fairly soon about summer-collegiate ball at the site the location fits in the Northwoods League and Prospect League footprints. Site history Universal Pictures built the baseball diamond in 1988 on two farms a few miles outside Dyersville, Iowa, for the 1989 film Field of Dreams. It is located in Dyersville, Iowa, within Dubuque County. Seating 3,000 but expanding to 8,000 seats for big events (like future MLB Field of Dreams games), the ballpark would cost more than $50 million and be used for college and international tourneys, high school games and events like baseball camps, music concerts, festivals and group/corporate meetings. Field of Dreams is a baseball field and pop-culture tourist attraction built for the 1989 movie of the same name. The plan for a new ballpark fits as part of the new development and would be built at the site of MLB’s Field of Dreams game, set to return this August. The existing movie site will remain intact, while the base of the temporary ballpark built for the 2021 Field of Dreams Yankees/White Sox event, will be expanded into a permanent facility. It’s currently scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023. Instead, MLB has built a new stadium not too far off from the original. The first phase of the project, which will installed largely on the new land, will include nine new diamonds, a youth player dorm and a new hotel. The White Sox and Yankees will take part in the 2021 Field of Dreams Game, but it will not be held at the iconic field. The original 190-acre farm will be the base of the development, augmented by addition of almost 100 more acres to the west. In April Go the Distance Baseball, LLC unveiled an $80-million plan to expand the Field of Dreams site. Travel Dubuque and a new nonprofit are pitching a permanent 3,000-seat, $50-million ballpark as part of Dyersville’s Field of Dreams site, in addition to the $80-million expansion already planned for the iconic Iowa film location. ![]()
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