The grass is green, the seats have been installed and on Monday in the dead of winter, Toyota Field looked ready for baseball.
It was still 100 days before the season opener for the Rocket City Trash Pandas and there are probably still 100 days of things to do to get everything ready for the return of minor league baseball in north Alabama.
The landmark of 100 days until opening day was also marked by a visit from Jeff Sessions, the former U.S. attorney general and senator who is seeking to recapture that seat. Sessions toured Toyota Field for about an hour on Monday, escorted by Trash Pandas CEO and President Ralph Nelson.
From the SportsMED Stadium Club on the upper level of the stadium to the clubhouses for the Trash Pandas and their opponents in the basement, Nelson led Sessions through the still-active construction site to show off the stadium.
That included a stop in the team's executive office suite on the main concourse level and to Nelson's office that has floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over the stadium's parking lot.
"If that parking lot is not full, you're going to have indigestion," Sessions joked with Nelson.
Sessions visited the under-construction FBI facility at Redstone Arsenal on Monday afternoon. But before that, he squeezed in the Toyota Field tour.
"The Trash Pandas have become the talk of the town," Sessions said at the end of the stadium tour. "A hundred days away from first pitch, they are certain they are going to be ready. To go from cotton fields to first pitch is an exciting thing."
Indeed, Nelson said construction is continuing to proceed on schedule with work expected to wrap up by the end of the month before contractors spend February working through a punch list of final touches throughout the stadium. The Trash Pandas plan to move into their stadium offices in March.
The stadium is an anchor for Town Madison – a sprawling mixed-use development that includes single-family homes, apartments, hotels and retail, among other features.
“I think it’s going to be a great addition to this whole area,” Sessions said. “It’s creating a foundation or a base of economic development – restaurants, hotels, housing, apartments. It’s really an exciting example of the growth in Huntsville and Madison County and Madison. The whole area is booming to the degree that few in the nation are.”
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