Stadium Name: | Truist Stadium |
Logo Image: | Truist_Stadium.jpg |
Former Names: | BB&T Ballpark (2010–2020) |
Pushpin Map: | USA North Carolina |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Carolina |
Address: | 951 Ballpark Way |
Location: | Winston-Salem, NC 27101 |
Broke Ground: | October 30, 2007 |
Opened: | April 10, 2010 |
Owner: | City of Winston-Salem |
Operator: | Winston-Salem Dash LLC |
Surface: | Grass |
Construction Cost: | $48.7 million ($ in dollars) |
Architect: | 360 Architecture CJMW Architecture |
Structural Engineer: | City Structures D&P, Inc.[1] |
General Contractor: | Samet Construction[2] |
Tenants: | Winston-Salem Dash (CL/High-A East) (2010–present) |
Seating Capacity: | 5,500[3] |
Dimensions: | Left field: 315feet Center field: 399feet Right field: 323feet[4] |
Truist Stadium is a ballpark in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, that replaced Ernie Shore Field. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Winston-Salem Dash minor league baseball team.
The ballpark is bounded by Peters Creek Parkway (northwest/west); 1st Street (north); and Green Street (northeast, left-center field). Salem Parkway, which carries US 158 and US 421, is toward the south/southeast.
It was originally planned to open for the 2009 season. Various delays pushed it to mid-2009, and then to the 2010 season. Oversights such as the budget, by city planners, were reported to be the cause.[5]
The first home game was played on April 13, 2010, against the Potomac Nationals, resulting in a 5–4 loss in 12 innings, before 7,111 spectators.[6] At the end of its first season, the stadium was named Ballpark of the Year by Baseballparks.com.[7]
On February 24, 2010, the Dash announced that Winston-Salem based bank BB&T had signed a 15-year naming rights deal for the new ballpark. BB&T also owned the naming rights for fellow Winston-Salem Entertainment-Sports Complex venue BB&T Field, home to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team.[8]
This was the second ballpark in the Carolina League sponsored by BB&T. The first was BB&T Coastal Field (now TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark), home to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. BB&T also sponsored BB&T Ballpark (now Truist Field) for the Charlotte Knights which opened in the spring of 2014.[9]
The ballpark was renamed Truist Stadium in June 2020 due to the 2019 merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks to form Truist.[10]