TUCSON, Ariz. — The Arizona Wildcats baseball team could soon be playing home games at Hi Corbett Field, the former spring training home of the Colorado Rockies.
The Arizona Daily Star reports the Tucson City Council has approved a letter of intent authorizing a lease deal. Final terms still need to be hammered out.
The UA would pay $250,000 a year to become the major tenant for five years, with a five-year extension at the school’s option. The rent would be subject to a 3 percent annual inflation escalator.
The UA would make substantial improvements, which would become the property of the city at the end of the lease.
The improvements could include a new outfield fence, a new video board and scoreboard, new stadium seats, renovation of the dugouts, locker rooms and clubhouses and the installations of signs identifying Hi Corbett as the home of UA baseball.
The Rockies trained at Hi Corbett from 1993 through 2010 before moving to Talking Stick at Salt River Fields outside Scottsdale this spring.
— Information from: Arizona Daily Star,
