Spring training ballpark on track to open for Astros, Nats

Posted August 25, 2016 7:00 am

The Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A builder has assured Palm Beach County officials that a new spring training baseball stadium will be ready for the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros next year.

The Palm Beach Post (http://bit.ly/2bjI8yt ) reports that Hunt Construction Group General Manager Doug Utt told Palm Beach County Commissioner Shelley Vana during a tour of the site Wednesday that he is confident the $144 million facility will open in January, as scheduled, barring something "catastrophic."

Still, the two teams are working on backup plans just in case the facility isn't ready by January.

When the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches opens, it will end an 18-year absence of spring training baseball in West Palm Beach after the Atlanta Braves and Montreal Expos left the area in 1997.

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Information from: The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, http://www.pbpost.com

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