Progressive Field

Progressive Field opened as part of the Gateway Sports and Entertainment Complex at a cost of about $175 million. The team owner Richard E. Jacobs contributed $91 million, and the remainder was funded by a 15-year "sin tax" that Cuyahoga County voters approved by a 51% margin in a May 1990 ballot issue, after earlier stadium funding initiatives had failed. Populous, then HOK Sport, a division of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, designed it, and it is described as the second retro-style and the first retro-modern ballpark, following the model of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Its features include a 19-foot left-field wall nicknamed the "Little Green Monster", 19 white vertical light towers standing 200 feet above street level, a Daktronics scoreboard 59 feet high by 221 feet wide, and Heritage Park, added behind center field in 2007 with 27 plaques honoring the Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame and 38 bricks marking the team's most memorable moments. Renovations in 2014 to 2016 relocated the bullpens and added new statuary, a bar called "The Corner" and enhanced concessions; a new scoreboard system followed in 2016 and LED field lights in 2017; and a further $200 million renovation project ran from 2023 to 2025.