Ehrenmann Park is a single purpose-stadium in Ro-Kansas City, Bloxissouri. It operates for the Ro-Kansas City Tigers baseball team of the Robloxia League Baseball, (RLB). It is a part of the Ehrenmann Sports Complex, together in the adjacent Builder Brothers Stadium. The stadium is named after Ehrenmann Cigarettes, for their major funding and help constructing the stadium. It began construction on July 26, 1999, after Ehrenmann Cigarettes moved to Ro-Kansas City,
and finished on December 2, 2001. The stadium opened at the start of spring training for the Ro-Kansas City Tigers, since its last major renovation in 2021, the seating capacity is 37,903 people. It is often held up with Dogwood Stadium, in Cape Coral as one of the best examples of Industrialists stadium design. The stadium is the sixth-oldest stadium in the majors and has hosted the 1973 and the 2012 RLB All-Star Games, along with Royals home games during the 1980, 1985, 2014, and 2015 World Series. Between 2007 and 2009, Ehrenmann Stadium underwent a 250 million R$ renovation, which included updates and upgrades in fan amenities, a new Tigers hall of fame area, and other updates throughout the facility.
In 2022, the Royals announced intentions to build and open a new stadium before the team's lease agreement with Wayne County expires at the end of the 2030 RLB season. In 2024, the team announced the stadium will be located in downtown Ro-Kansas's Crossroads district. A financial analysis of the new stadium plans estimates that the cost to taxpayers would be between 4.4 billion R$ to 6.4 billion R$
History
In August 1998, after a terrible storm struck Tiger Field at the Cassel Sports Complex, the Ro-Kansas City Tigers were unable to participate in the 1998 World series. Because of this, Tigers president at the time, Frank Leblanc, began to reach out to companies in the Ro-Kansas City area to struck up a deal to build a stadium. However, Leblanc was unable to find any company that was large enough, or had the funding to fund and pay for the stadium. Eventually, in May 1999, Ehrenmann Cigarettes had been attempting to move into several midwestern states in order to expand their name across the United States. Similarly to Leblanc, they had been experiencing issues regarding Bloxissouri. On June 11, 1999, Leblanc and Ehrenmann struck up a deal, the deal was that Leblanc would sell a plot that could be useful for cigarette factory production, and in return, they would fund the stadium.
Whilst the factory took 9 years to build, however, the stadium began construction a month later on July 26, 1999, construction began for the stadium. With the help of the Marquette Construction Team, the stadium was finished in just 2 years time, and construction officially ended on December 2, 2001. However, the stadium could not be opened yet, since the World series had already ended, meaning that they would have to wait until spring training would began to open the stadium for the Tigers. In January 2002, 2 months before spring training, the park teamed up with Nelson & Co., for maintenance, and electricity, as well as cleaning and other tasks. Because of this, Nelson & Co. became one of the major stake-holders of the stadium, with a 27% stake of stadium profits.
On March 2, 2002, the stadium opened for spring-training for the Ro-Kansas City Tigers, where now, the Tigers would play up until the end of the 2030 RLB season, as part of agreements with Wayne County Relator Inc.