BaseballParks.com's 2015 Ballpark of the Year Architect
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Designers behind the region’s best ballparks can be found at DLA+ Architecture
Architect’s Sports Practice continues to gain recognition
PITTSBURGH, PA – August 18, 2015 – What secret ingredients make a ballpark visit an unforgettable experience? Once the teams are in place, the experts at DLA+ Architecture and Interior Design are supplying the rest of the recipe with the latest industry trends. Recent awards for the country’s best ballparks are reinforcing the firm’s leading role in designing outstanding sports venues across the region. Principals from the Pittsburgh firm were involved with several projects recently named winners in various best ballparks rankings and fan polls this summer.
DLA+ was the Architect for Baseballparks.com’s 2015 Ballpark of the Year, announced August 12. Monongalia County Ballpark in Morgantown, West Virginia, which is home of the Black Bears, and WVU Mountaineers, won the designation over other new or remodeled ballparks used for all levels of play. The Blacks Bears are an MiLB affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
In addition, DLA+ principals were involved with PNC Park, just named as the "Best MLB Ballpark" by 91,000 voters visiting Ballpark Digest. Earlier this summer, Monongalia County Ballpark was also the final winner with 86 percent of the vote in the site’s "MiLB Best of the Ballparks – Short Season A" fan voting competition. Ballpark Digest is a national online publication that has covered ballparks and the business of baseball for more than a decade.
Ballpark Digest’s staff rankings placed five projects in which DLA+ principals have played a role into its list of the country’s Best Ballparks: PNC Park as #3 MLB Ballpark; Medlar Field in State College, PA as #3 MiLB Short Season A, Monongalia County as #7 and Altoona Curve’s Peoples Natural Gas Field as #18.