Venue Detail
Tucson Beavers
Revenues From Sports Venues Pro Facilities Report
February, 2011
Tucson Beavers
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920 SW 6th Ave Mezzanine Level Portland, OR 97204 Phone: 503-553-5400 Fax: 503-553-5405 URL: www.portlandbeavers.com
Owner
San Diego Padres
League
Pacific Coast League Pacific Conference, North
Venue
Kino Stadium, 2500 E. Ajo Way, Tucson, AZ 85713 Owner: Pima County Managed by: Team Built: 1998 Capacity: 11,500 Permanent concession stands: 7 Concessionaire: Sportservice Suite caterer: Sportservice Soft drink: Pepsi Cola Beer: Multiple
Naming rights
Sold to: Tuscon Electric Co. Price: $2, 000,000 Term: 10 years Expires: 2010
Ticket prices
Season tickets range from $504 to $756 Single tickets range from $8.00 to $13.00
Attendance
2007 average attendance: 5,478 2008 average attendance: 5,607 2009 average attendance: 5,279
Luxury Suites
Quantity: 8 Term: 1 to 3 years Price: $18,000 to $18,000 Seats: 20 to 20 Includes: Tickets. Party suite rental rate is $20 per ticket and can hold 25 people.
The Triple-A Portland Beavers are headed to a new ballpark to be built in the San Diego suburb of Escondido. While that venue is under construction, the team will play temporarily in Tucson. At press time, the official name of the team was not known.
Former owner Merritt Paulson sold the team to the North County Baseball ownership group led by Jeff Moorad, part owner and CEO of the Triple A franchise's parent club, the San Diego Padres.
The sale price was said to be in the range of the $15-16 million Paulson paid for the team in 2007.
The team's fate was set in 2009 when proposals to construct a ballpark in Portland and Beaverton fell through and the Portland Timbers soccer team, which Paulson also owns, was granted entry into Major League Soccer. That move required PGE Park, the home for both teams, to be renovated into a soccer/football-only venue.
Paulson hoped to keep the Beavers in Portland by building a ballpark that itself would be a fan attraction and make the team more profitable.
But several plans, including one to build a ballpark at the site of Memorial Coliseum, failed to garner public and civic support despite Paulson's offer to pay for a large chunk of construction cost, the newspaper reported.
The ballpark formerly known as Tucson Electric Park is now called Kino Stadium. Tucson Electric Power Co. rescinded its naming rights agreement in 2010 after the team announced it would hold spring training in Scottsdale. Though Pima County owns the ballpark, the team owned the naming rights. (Baseball, Facilities, Financial, MinorLeagueVenueReport, Professional Sports)