Climate change calls for a new stadium in Texas baseball

2019-10-04T11:01:00-04:00

A few years ago, the owners of the Rangers concluded that the sweat-inducing weather was depressing attendance, and decided to build $1.2 billion Globe Life Field, with a retractable roof and air conditioning, right next to their not-very-old and still perfectly good stadium. The residents of Arlington are chipping in $500 million of that cost.

As climate change continues to bestow its work upon the planet, Texas Rangers Baseball are one of the many feeling its effects. Globe Life Field, the new HKS designed baseball park under construction in Arlington, Texas, and due for completion in March of next year, is the $1.2 billion response to the rising heat.

Globe Life Stadium. Courtesy of HKS

As innovations in stadium design continue to progress, the 'inconveniences' of the past will become the luxuries of the future, sweaty patrons now will have the comfort of climate controlled competition.

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Climate change calls for a new stadium in Texas baseball