San Antonio is getting its first look at a planned new baseball stadium.
Designated Bidders, owners of the San Antonio Missions, released a set of architectural renderings by the global design firm Populous on Thursday that show a baseball diamond in the northwest part of downtown San Antonio.
The $160 million stadium is the result of an agreement signed with the City of San Antonio and the San Pedro Creek Development Authority in 2024, and the realization of years of anticipation and speculation over a downtown ballpark.
The planned stadium in the urban core will succeed the Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium on the city’s Southwest Side, where the Double-A Minor League team has played since 1994.
A rendering shows a view of one of the min entrance to Weston Urban’s planned baseball park development in downtown San Antonio. Credit: Courtesy / Populous
Designated Bidders board member Randy Smith called the ballpark a community gathering place that in tandem with adjacent mixed-use residential developments planned by Weston Urban, “is truly the culmination of well over a decade of public and private effort to breathe vibrancy into the San Pedro Creek Culture Park.”
Smith is principal of Weston Urban, the project developer who helped broker the deal with the city to bring the ballpark to downtown San Antonio, promising new development in the area with a projected taxable value of $1 billion.
“Between UTSA’s campus expansion, Frost Tower, the Ballpark and our residential developments, the Creek is now an unparalleled place for all San Antonians to live, work, learn, and maybe most importantly, play,” Smith said. “This is what our kids want. This is what our kids need.”
A rendering of Weston Urban’s planned baseball park development in downtown San Antonio shows the Sunshine Laundry building facade. Credit: Courtesy / Populous
The designs appear to incorporate the remnants of the Sunshine Laundry building demolished by Weston Urban in 2017. A laundry business began operating on the site in 1913, according to research by the San Antonio Conservation Society of city directories.
The city’s Historic and Design Review Commission is scheduled to review the plans on Wednesday.
“We’re very pleased with how the design is progressing and we look forward to hearing the Commission’s feedback and proceeding to the next step to finalize a project that we are sure will serve our community for generations to come,” said Bruce Hill, Missions board chairman.
The team has committed $34 million to build the stadium.
See additional renderings released Thursday here.