Lugnuts Stadium | |
Former names | Cooley Law School Stadium (2011–2020) Jackson Field at Thomas M. Cooley Law School Stadium (2010) Oldsmobile Park (1996–2009) |
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Location | 505 East Michigan Avenue Lansing, MI 48912 |
Coordinates | 42°44′5″N 84°32′43″W / 42.73472°N 84.54528°W |
Owner | City of Lansing |
Operator | Lansing Entertainment & Public Facilities Authority (LEPFA) |
Capacity | 7,527 (+ 2,000 lawn, patio and standing room) |
Field size | Left field: 305 feet (93 m) Center field: 404 feet (123 m) Right field: 305 feet (93 m) |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Broke ground | April 3, 1995 |
Opened | April 3, 1996 |
Construction cost | $12.8 million ($24.9 million in 2023 dollars[1]) |
Architect | HNTB Corporation (Kansas City) |
Structural engineer | J&S Structural Engineers[3] |
General contractor | Clark Construction[2] |
Tenants | |
Lansing Lugnuts (MWL/High-A Central) (1996–present) Michigan State Spartans (NCAA) (1996–present) Lansing Ignite FC (USL1) (2019) |
Jackson Field is a baseball stadium in Lansing, Michigan, home field of the Lansing Lugnuts minor league baseball team. The Michigan State Spartans college baseball team also plays select home games at Jackson Field. The stadium is situated in downtown Lansing in the Stadium District on a relatively narrow strip of land between and below Larch and Cedar streets.
It is primarily used for baseball, though it has also hosted an ice skating rink, an outdoor movie theater, a haunted house, and served as a concert venue for the annual Common Ground Music Festival. Due to the dimensions of the city block in which the stadium was constructed, the right and left field fences 'notch' sharply into distances of 305 feet (93 m) at each foul pole.