Riverfront Stadium is open for business.
Yes, that name has been used before for a baseball facility. The Big Red Machine of the 1970s played in the cookie-cutter stadium with that name on the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati. Now that name is attached to a ballpark on the banks of the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita.
It’s just a placeholder name really. As soon as a corporate-sponsorship deal is finalized, it will have a new name.
We really sliced and diced this new ballpark — how it came to be designed and built in a mad rush, what its strengths are (the upper level is spectacular), what it lacks (in a word — intimacy), in what ways it’s sort of standard fare. We look at it all.
So check out our look at the park that was built for a Triple-A team, but after MLB’s got done moving the chess pieces around, now has a Double-A tenant. It’s worth your time reading our in-depth look at Riverfront Stadium. Well, the one that still exists, not the one that was imploded in 2002.
The Rocket City Trash Pandas feel quite at home in this park that has just enough quirks to make the whole experience interesting.