The city of Greensboro (NC) has hired a consulting firm to explore ways to fund a project that would pair restoration and preservation of historic War Memorial Stadium, former home of the Single-A Greensboro Bats (now the Greensboro Grasshoppers) (South Atlantic League), with a broader restoration of the surrounding neighborhood and the future expansion of North Carolina A&T University’s campus. War Memorial Stadium was replaced by NewBridge Bank Park in 2005 and has faced threats of closure and demolition since then. Read more here.
War Memorial Stadium Not Out of Woods Yet, But…
Filed under Awards & Recognition, Design & Construction, Stadium Issues
I’ll be down in Greensboro in May. Maybe I’ll have to stop by the old War Memorial and check it out after the Grasshoppers game.
-Mike