Innovative Field
Innovative Field (originally known as Frontier Field) is a baseball stadium located at One Morrie Silver Way in downtown Rochester, New York. It has been the home of the Rochester Red Wings of the International League since 1997. The park opened in 1996, replacing Silver Stadium in northern Rochester, which had been home to professional baseball in Rochester since 1929. Although the stadium was built for baseball, Innovative Field has had several tenants in numerous sports, including the Rochester Raging Rhinos of the United Soccer Leagues from 1996 to 2005, and the Rochester Rattlers of Major League Lacrosse from 2001 to 2002. The ballpark seats 10,840 spectators for baseball.
| Former names | Frontier Field (1996–2022) |
|---|---|
| Location | One Morrie Silver Way Rochester, New York United States |
| Coordinates | 43°9′29.76″N 77°37′11.26″W |
| Owner | Monroe County, NY |
| Operator | Rochester Community Baseball, Inc. |
| Capacity | 13,500 |
| Field size | Left field: 335 ft (102 m) Center field: 402 ft (123 m) Right field: 322 ft (98 m) |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | November 16, 1994 |
| Opened | July 11, 1996 |
| Construction cost | US$35.3 million ($65.9 million in 2022 dollars) |
| Architect | Ellerbe Becket Bergmann Associates |
| Project manager | Flaum Management Company |
| Structural engineer | Sear-Brown Group Inc. |
| General contractor | Christa Construction Corporation |
| Tenants | |
| Rochester Raging Rhinos (USL-1) 1996–2005 Rochester Red Wings (IL/AAAE) 1997–present Rochester Rattlers (MLL) 2001–2002 Empire State Yankees (IL) 2012 Toronto Blue Jays taxi squad (MLB) 2020 | |
Rochester-based telecommunications company Frontier Telephone of Rochester held the naming rights to the ballpark from its opening in 1996 until the 2022 baseball offseason. Originally in December 2015 agreement was reached to maintain the name for a further ten years, however, on October 24, 2022, a new naming rights agreement was reached with Innovative Solutions, a Henrietta-based IT services company at the request of both Innovative and Frontier who was looking to cut back on sponsorship costs after the company filed for bankruptcy in 2020, changing the name of the stadium to Innovative Field pending final approval.