Venue Detail
South Bend Silver Hawks
RSV Pro Facilities Report
February, 2016
South Bend Silver Hawks
PO Box 4218 South Bend, IN 46634 Phone: 574-235-9988 Fax: 574-235-9950 URL: www.silverhawks.com Owner: Palisades Baseball Inc. League: Midwest League, Eastern
Venue
Four Winds Field, 501 W South St, South Bend, IN 46601 Owner: Alan M. Levin Managed by: Owner Built: 1986 Capacity: 5,000 Permanent concession stands: 5 Concessionaire: Professional Sports Catering Suite caterer: Professional Sports Catering Soft drink: Pepsi Cola Beer: Multiple
Naming rights
Sold to: Four Winds Term: 10 years Expires: 2023
Ticket prices
Season tickets range from $395 to $500 Single tickets range from $9.00 to $11.00
Attendance
2013 average attendance: 3,598 2014 average attendance: 3,751
Suites
Quantity: 10 Term: 1 to 3 years Price: $15,000 to $15,000 Seats: 10 to 15 Includes: Parking, tickets, special events. The rental rate on the party suites runs from $400 to $500.
South Bend officials are working on plans for an upgrade to the ballpark that could cost up to $40 million. Initial plans call for funding the project through an existing sports development fund and a tax incremental financing district.
Inside the ballpark, the upgrades would range from the mundane, such as renovating restrooms and updating the 23-year-old facility's heating, cooling and lighting systems, to the dramatic, including new seating and outfield picnic areas, and a park-like centerfield entrance. The work was designed by Populous architects.
That first phase, with an estimated cost of $2 million to $4 million, would include renovating restrooms and adding new ones, replacing the heating and cooling system, installing new field lights that are lower to the ground and more energy-efficient, along with new outdoor suites on the first-base line and renovating the Upper Deck box seat areas.
Work on the new centerfield entrance, which would incorporate a park-like area where the main Gates building once stood, along with the left- and right-field corner upgrades, would start later.
In 1999 the team added a new children's play area that includes a children's concession stand. The area holds about 150 children. (Facilities, Baseball, Minor League, Professional Sports, Venue)