Revamp in store for Padres’ Petco Park

Article posted by Coliseum, November 29^th, 2024

Image: Petco Park, Philkon Attribute to "Phil Konstantin", CC BY-SA 3.0

Major League Baseball’s (MLB) San Diego Padres have revealed details of the renovation of Petco Park’s Western Metal Supply Co. Building.

The Padres said the project includes a complete makeover of the team’s New Era Team Store, the Budweiser Loft on the fifth level, and the Rooftop.

The revamp is part of the Padres’ longstanding and ongoing commitment to maintain and improve Petco Park.

Construction on the Western Metal Building has already begun and will be completed in time for the Padres’ 2025 Opening Day on Thursday, March 27, versus the Atlanta Braves.

The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego, US. They compete in MLB as a member club of the National League West division. Founded in 1969, the club has won two National League pennants in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both years.

The 42,445-capacity Petco Park is a baseball stadium in Downtown San Diego, California, US. It is the ballpark of the San Diego Padres and has also been used as a venue for concerts, soccer, golf, football, and rugby.

The Padres said that while honoring the history of the Western Metal Supply Co. Building, the Padres New Era Team Store will expand by approximately 1,000 square feet of new floor space and will see increased checkout locations, new modern finishes, lighting and optimized merchandise displays to the existing retail environment, remodeled restrooms, and a transformed Sony Entertainment Suite and exterior deck.

The improved Entertainment Suite, located in the left field corner of the playing field, caters for groups of 16-or-more and includes an expanded exterior deck with additional field-facing seats, a new premium catering layout, new luxury finishes and furniture, increased in-suite privacy, and access to renovated semi-private restrooms.

The new and improved Budweiser Loft, located on the fifth floor, features an elevated social space that celebrates the unique historic character of the building while adding refined hospitality touches.

The upgrades include a renovated bar, new focused lighting that will enhance the guest experience, new premium furniture and games, and a transformed Foul Pole Suite, which includes expanded capacity for groups of 20-or-more, a new premium catering layout, new luxury finishes and furniture, and access to renovated semi-private restrooms.

The most transformational change to the Western Metal Building includes a new grand staircase that will for the first time connect the Budweiser Loft directly to the fully renovated Western Metal Rooftop.

Designed to elevate the gameday and event experience, the remodeled Rooftop will feature a 4,000-square-foot raised deck that offers all new sight lines to the playing field and increased capacity for more guests in the space.

The Rooftop will also include new private restrooms dedicated to the space, a new covered trellis that will provide shade and overhead heating, all new and increased premium lounge seating, and two new video boards measuring 16-by-9 feet so that guests in the space will not miss any of the action on the playing field.

The showpiece of the improved Western Metal Rooftop will be a new feature wall on the field-facing side, which will light up, including the night sky, for celebratory moments.

Priority for Rooftop private events and gameday experiences will be given to groups of 300 guests-or-more; and now with the direct connectivity to the Budweiser Loft, can comfortably accommodate groups exceeding 1,000 people.

The Western Metal Supply Co. Building’s iconic brick façade will remain untouched, while the suites on the third and fourth floors of the building were recently renovated when the Padres remodeled all 70 suites at Petco Park in 2022.

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