Council Approves Partial Pringles Park Improvements
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Jackson city council members voted on improvements t the city’s professional baseball stadium, Tuesday morning. The council approved spending more than $306,000 to upgrade the video board and just more than $20,000 to renovates suites in the stadium. The council rejected a request for $1,500 to build a playground down the right line field. The video board upgrade comes as the result of a number of lightening strikes to the existing board. The new video system will have an LED display, complete with a replay system. Paint and carpeting is on the agenda for stadium suites. “The corporate entities that rent those suites at some point in time, if they’re not nice, they don’t want to take their customers and clients to, will quit renting them and then that would mean a loss of revenue to the park,” Randy Wallace, District 7 councilman. The city has not paid for any major improvement to the city-owned park since it opened in 1998. The Jackson Generals, an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners, open their 2012 season at Pringles Park on April 5 against the Birmingham Barons.
