Those areas have been turned into party decks (photos 4 and 11), one with artificial turf, the other without. The two large seating sections near the left-field and right-field corners have been removed, shrinking the official seating capacity from 12,500 to 10,500, which should make for many sellouts for the loyal, but smaller-than-the-Cubs fanbase from Oakland. I estimate I went to the two Cub versions of HoHoKam well over 100 times over its years of existence, so walking around the place felt normal, yet odd. The A's and the city of Mesa hosted "A Day At The Diamond" Saturday afternoon and it was a bit surreal to walk into a place that had been so familiar to me and see how different it looked decked out in the green-and-gold of the A's. Last spring the Cubs moved into their new facility in Mesa, now named Sloan Park, and the city of Mesa embarked on a $20 million refurbishing of HoHoKam Park - now officially called HoHoKam Stadium - to be the spring home of the Oakland Athletics. Here's a gallery of photos from that final Cubs day as the home team at HoHoKam, an interesting comparison to this one. ![]() ![]() The Cubs played their last spring-training game there March 28, 2013. The original HoHoKam Park opened in 1979 and closed after the 1996 spring campaign, and was replaced by a larger edifice on the same site in time for spring 1997. Center Street in Mesa home for their spring-training games. MESA, Arizona - For 35 seasons, the Cubs called a ballpark at 1235 N. View of right field from third-base line. Wide view of the third-base and left-field areas. These four boards will likely have ads on them soon. View of third-base line seating from right field. View of the video board from behind first base. View of the video board from right field -įormer right-field seating area, now a party deck. The bullpens, in the right-field corner. Photos like this are at various areas of the park -įormer left-field seating area, now a party deck. Read the department's commitment to respecting Ancestral Indigenous Communities.Entry to the team store from the parking lot. ![]() The Parks and Recreation Department acknowledges the City of Phoenix is located within Native Land. The City of Phoenix sprawls over-and conceals-this legacy. ![]() Set among busy traffic corridors, adjacent to an international airport and surrounded by a diverse neighborhood, the museum is a quiet island of history, where over ten centuries of human solutions to the threats of heat and drought are preserved for the public. The museum and site anchor's Phoenix to its prehistoric roots and is the only publicly accessible ancestral village site in the City. The Akimel O’Odham, descendants of the people who lived at Pueblo Grande, still live and thrive in the Phoenix area. The Museum and park is an extraordinary archaeological site where visitors can see a platform mound, a ballcourt, and centuries-old irrigation canals that are among the rare, remaining examples of these people’s exceptional architecture and engineering skills. After AD 1400, the population declined and the people relocated to smaller villages. The village of Pueblo Grande was settled around AD 500, and was occupied for over 1000 years. They have been intimately connected to the landscape transforming it for their needs including the irrigation canals and agricultural fields still visible behind the museum. For thousands of years, the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People, known to archaeologists as the Hohokam, have lived in Phoenix and the surrounding areas.
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