Daejeon City Confirms Construction of New 'Open-Concept' Baseball Stadium... Target Completion by February 2025

On the 13th, Lee Jang-woo, Mayor of Daejeon, announced the final plan for the 'Baseball Dream Park' development project. Photo by Daejeon City

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City has unveiled the final plan for the construction project of the new local baseball stadium, ‘Baseball Dream Park.’ The plan centers on building an open-air baseball stadium to be completed in 2025, allowing it to be used in time for the opening of the professional baseball season that year.

On the 13th, the city announced that it has made a final decision to build Baseball Dream Park as a purely open-air baseball stadium, shifting away from the initially considered plan of constructing a dome stadium with expansion capabilities.

This decision was influenced by factors such as potential delays in the completion schedule of Baseball Dream Park if the basic design were changed to allow expansion into a dome stadium, the significant progress already made in administrative procedures including the demolition of the existing baseball stadium (Hanbat Sports Complex), and the potential increase in project costs.

The city expects that by proceeding with construction as an open-air baseball stadium, Baseball Dream Park can be utilized in time for the opening of the 2025 professional baseball season.

In particular, the city plans to add multifunctional performance capabilities to the existing baseball stadium design, enabling large-scale events such as cultural and artistic performances and K-pop concerts, and to enhance various sports and convenience facilities so that citizens can freely use them.

Additionally, the city aims to reinvent the Hanbat Baseball Stadium (Eagles Park), which has been used as the home ground by the Hanwha Eagles, and the Chungmu Gymnasium facilities into spaces accessible to citizens. It will also explore solutions to parking issues around Baseball Dream Park by adding an underground parking lot and securing a public parking lot through the acquisition of nearby land.

Daejeon Mayor Lee Jang-woo stated, "Baseball Dream Park will be developed as a ‘sports complex’ that provides citizens with sports, culture, and artistic activities together," adding, "The city will prepare the optimal plan to transform the existing Hanbat Sports Complex into a citizen space."

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