The Columbia Fireflies’ opening night was a blast for 6-year-old Landon Nieto and 9-year-old Hayden Geib, even if the cousins spent most of the game playing on a grassy berm just beyond the stadium’s right field wall.
When employees at the Columbia office of law firm Ogletree Deakins settle into their new home, one can almost imagine a cry of “Play ball!” echoing down the hallway.
On April 14, Columbia residents will be presented with a new multi-use sports and entertainment venue, also the new home of the city’s new minor league baseball team, the Columbia Fireflies.
The new BullStreet Common development has another tenant. Commercial real estate brokers NAI Avant announced Tuesday that the historic Park Annex on the former S.C. State Hospital grounds has been leased.
Ogletree Deakins has become the inaugural tenant of the First Base Building at the new Bull Street campus redevelopment, the employment and labor law firm confirmed Tuesday.
Columbia's Minor League Baseball team finally has a name. City leaders and the team ownership from Hardball Capital held a news conference to unveil the name of the city's Columbia team as the Columbia Fireflies.
The Mets have announced that they will move their Single-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League to Columbia, S.C. next season. Currently, that affiliate is stationed in Savannah, Ga.
Spirit Communications wants to do more than own the naming rights to the capital city’s new minor league baseball stadium being built on the old State Hospital grounds. It wants to turn the redeveloped Bull Street campus into a gigabit community.
More than $16.27 million has been subcontracted to local businesses for work on the Bull Street minor league baseball stadium, recently named Spirit Communication’s Park, part of a successful effort to hire out nearly half of the project through the city’s Subcontractor Outreach Program.
Though it may not look like much now, construction on the minor league baseball stadium at Columbia Common is still on schedule, with significant bids on portions of the project expected next week.
“We have a huge hole in the ground,” said Hardball Capital CEO Jason Freier, “and a big pile of dirt next to it.”
Downtown Columbia has resumed the building boom that was interrupted by the Great Recession. It is changing so quickly that it soon could look and feel very different. How different? And what will the Next New Columbia be like? That’s what we’re writing about in this monthly series.
