MLB Baseball Stadiums

Comerica Stadium

Tenant: Detroit Tigers (AL)
Opened: April 11, 2000 (against the Seattle Mariners)
Surface: Grass
Capacity: 40,000
Dimensions: Left field: 346 feet; left-center: 402 feet; center field: 422 feet; right-center: 379 feet; right field: 330 feet; foul territory: small.

Architect: HOK Sport (Kansas City); SHG Inc. (Detroit)
Construction: Hunt-Turner-White (a group consisting of firms Huber, Hunt & Nichols Inc., Turner Construction Inc. and White Construction Co.)
Owner: Detroit-Wayne County Stadium Authority
Cost: $300 million
Public financing: $115 million, or 38 percent, from 2 percent rental-car tax and 1 percent hotel tax, and money from Indian casino revenue
Private financing: $185 million, or 62 percent, from Tigers owner Mike Ilitch