PRESS RELEASE – The City of Lafayette and Lafayette Board of Parks & Recreation are pleased to announce that the Lafayette Aviators have been named the baseball team to play in Loeb Stadium. The announcement was made during a Park Board meeting at the Loeb Stadium construction site.
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Lafayette Aviators Selected to Lease New Loeb Stadium
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Lafayette Exploring Team Options for New Ballpark
When the new Loeb Stadium, going up at the corner of Main Street and Wallace Avenue in Columbian Park, opens, what baseball team will take the mound at the $20 million facility during its first full summer in 2021? Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski isn’t making any promises. Read more here
End of An Era: Demolition of Loeb Stadium Underway
It’s the end of an era as demolition crews began tearing down Loeb Stadium Wednesday morning. The new stadium is on schedule to be finished by the end of 2020. The Lafayette Aviators (Summer Collegiate, Prospect League) will play their 2020 home games at Purdue’s Alexander Field. Their first season at the new Loeb Stadium will start in the spring of 2021. Read more and watch video here.
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Despite Higher Cost, No Changes to Plans for New Lafayette Ballpark
Lafayette’s (IN) mayor doesn’t plan major changes to plans for a new city baseball stadium even though construction bids totaled nearly $4 million more than expected. The new 2,500-seat stadium would be built at the same site as the current Loeb Stadium in Columbian Park southeast of downtown Lafayette. Read more here.
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City Putting Final Design Touches on Loeb Stadium Rebuild
The city of Lafayette (IN) is wrapping up the final design details of the full renovation of Loeb Stadium, home of the Lafayette Aviators (Summer Collegiate, Prospect League). The $17 million project is expected to be completed in time for the 2021 season. Read more here.
Aviators Get New Ownership
Milwaukee (WI)-based MKE Sports and Entertainment has sold the Lafayette Aviators (Summer Collegiate, Prospect League) to a trio of Purdue graduates, including Bill Davidson, CEO of National Sports Services, Brent Gutwein, co-founder of Granite Student Living, and Stuart Gutwein, a Lafayette attorney. Read more here.
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Loeb Stadium Getting Multi-Purpose Redesign Makeover
Loeb Stadium, home of the Lafayette Aviators (Summer Collegiate, Prospect League), is being redesigned as part of the Five Points area of Lafayette (IN) to accommodate soccer, concerts and other events. The project will include a few key changes to the stadium, including a new entrance off Main and Wallace, synthetic turf for the field, and a reduction of capacity to 1,900, but with added suites. Read more here.
Where to Put New Home Plate in Lafayette?
Where’s home plate in Lafayette’s (IN) new baseball stadium? There’s your No. 1 topic from the two public input meetings as the city moves forward with a new facility in Columbian Park to replace the aging Loeb Stadium. Read more here.
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Talking New Ballpark Plan in Lafayette
The first of two public meetings regarding the city of Lafayette’s (IN) new baseball stadium was held Tuesday night. The city plans to demolish Loeb Stadium and build a new facility on the same location inside Columbian Park before the 2019 baseball season. Read more here.
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Lafayette to Demolish Loeb Stadium, Build New Park
The city of Lafayette (IN) plans to demolish 80-year-old Loeb Stadium and replace it with a new ballpark. The estimated $10 million facility would be designed by the same architect that designed the new ballpark in Kokomo (IN). Read more here. This makes sense, of course, as the Kokomo Jackrabbits and Lafayette Continue reading
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Checking In with the Prospect League
The summer collegiate Prospect League’s season is off and running, and newcomers to the circuit, the Lafayette Aviators and DuPage Drones, are reporting per-game average attendance numbers of 949 and 146, respectively. Meanwhile, the Hannibal Cavemen have rebooted the franchise, both actually and mentally, with a refreshed logo and a new website, after now-resolved “internal business issues” caused front office division for the past three and a half years. Read more here.
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Fans Select Aviators Logo
PRESS RELEASE – The fans of the Lafayette Aviators have once again spoken and strongly signaled their desire to be represented by the mustached jacketed aviator as represented in the team’s new logo. Continue reading
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It’s the ‘Lafayette Aviators’
The name of the new summer collegiate Prospect League franchise in Lafayette (IN) will be known as the Lafayette Aviators. Three logo options were introduced today on social media to solicit fan opinions before announcing a winner later this month. Read more here. View press release here. Thanks to Mark Tobin for the heads up.
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