{"id":362498,"date":"2026-08-04T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:42:31","slug":"orlando-dreamers-unveil-updated-ballpark-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362498\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Dreamers unveil updated ballpark plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/11\/orlando-dreamers-continue-pursuit-of-bringing-mlb-team-to-city-as-top-investors-pull-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/11\/orlando-dreamers-continue-pursuit-of-bringing-mlb-team-to-city-as-top-investors-pull-out\/\">Orlando Dreamers<\/a>, the group trying to land a MLB expansion team, will \u201cpresent updated renderings of a proposed multi-purpose baseball stadium complex\u201d to a county task force on Wednesday, according to J.C. Carnahan of the ORLANDO BUSINESS JOURNAL. The Dreamers will ask the Orange County Tourist Development Tax Citizen Advisory Task Force to recommend approval of $975M in funds to \u201cpartially finance the construction\u201d of a more than $2B facility. The renderings, designed by Populous, show the site as a \u201cmixed-use destination featuring a\u202f45,000-seat domed stadium with three hotel towers of approximately 1,000 rooms.\u201d It would include \u201cClass-A office space, a museum attraction, a multipurpose special events center and space\u202ffor restaurants, retail and hospitality tenants.\u201d Dreamers CMO Andrew Herdliska in an email said that the group is\u202f\u201cprepared to make the largest private investment in a publicly-owned stadium in MLB history.\u201d\u202fThe Dreamers previously stated that the group has more than $1B under a non-binding letter of intent for ballpark financing from unnamed \u201chighly qualified institutional sources\u201d and more than $1B for team acquisition costs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/orlando\/news\/2026\/08\/03\/dreamers-baseball-stadium-renderings-tdt-tourism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/orlando\/news\/2026\/08\/03\/dreamers-baseball-stadium-renderings-tdt-tourism.html\">ORLANDO BUSINESS JOURNAL, 8\/3<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Dreamers, the group trying to land a MLB expansion team, will \u201cpresent updated renderings of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3816,3817,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-362498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}