Miller Sports + Entertainment has released renderings of Daybreak Field at America First Square, the new ballpark the company is building south of Salt Lake City for the Class AAA Salt Lake Bees. Miller Sports + Entertainment (MSE), which recently rebranded from Larry H. Miller Sports + Entertainment, is privately funding the $140M, 8,000-capacity stadium that, when it opens in spring 2025, will sit in the 4,100-acre Daybreak planned community; 1,200 of those acres, including the ballpark site, are owned by Miller Real Estate, which resides under the same Larry H. Miller Company umbrella as MSE.
Two-hundred acres surrounding the ballpark and the America First Square will consist of commercial development including a multiplex containing bowling, an arcade and high-end movie theater. HOK designed the stadium, which is being built by Okland Construction and will replace the Bees’ current home, Smith’s Ballpark.
MSE has only now released renderings of Daybreak Field, which has seating for 6,500 and space for another 2,000 on outfield berms, due to the organization’s courtship of the A’s, who considered playing the gap seasons between their exit from Oakland and a new stadium being built in Las Vegas at the new Daybreak Field. In that arrangement, the Bees (the Angels’ Triple-A affiliate) would’ve stayed at the existing Smith’s Ballpark. The A’s ultimately opted to play in Sacramento…