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Heritage Financial Park
Heritage Financial Park (the United States)
Former namesDutchess Stadium (1994–2022)
Address1500 Route 9D
Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 [1]
Coordinates 41°31′40.48″N73°57′39.84″W / 41.5279111°N 73.9610667°W / 41.5279111; -73.9610667
OwnerHudson Valley Stadium Corp.
OperatorHudson Valley Stadium Corp.
Capacity 4,494
Field sizeLeft field: 325 ft (99 m)
Center field: 400 ft (120 m)
Right field: 325 ft (99 m)
SurfaceAstro-Turf
Construction
Broke groundJanuary 20, 1994 [2]
OpenedJune 18, 1994 [3]
Construction cost $8.3 million
($16.4 million in 2022 dollars [4] )
ArchitectLiscum McCormack VanVoorhis LLP [5]
Structural engineer Geiger Engineers
Services engineerFellenzer Engineering LLP [6]
General contractorMeyer Contracting Corporation [7]
Tenants
Hudson Valley Renegades (NYPL/High-A East) 1994–present
Manhattan Jaspers (NCAA) 2015–2019
Hudson Valley Fort (FXFL) 2015

Heritage Financial Park is a baseball park in Fishkill, New York. [8] Home to the Hudson Valley Renegades, the park originally opened on June 18, 1994. The original name from 1994 to 2023 was Dutchess Stadium and it continued with that name until March 2023 when a naming-rights deal with Heritage Financial Credit Union was completed. [9]

Contents

It has a capacity of 4,494 people [10] and is located on New York State Route 9D across Interstate 84 from Fishkill Correctional Facility.

History

Construction of the stadium began in April 1994 after approval by the Dutchess County Legislature, and opened less than three months later in June 1994. [11] [12]

Uses

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Dutchess Stadium, August 2010

The stadium is primarily used for baseball, as the home field of the Hudson Valley Renegades minor league baseball team.

In 2021, the team joined the High-A East as an affiliate of the New York Yankees. [13] Formerly the Renegades were the short season-A level team of the Tampa Bay Rays in the now-defunct New York–Penn League.

Each April the stadium hosts the Hudson Valley Baseball Classic between Marist College and the United States Military Academy. [14] Besides baseball, it is also used for weddings, catered events, concerts, as well as high school [15] and college graduations. [16] The stadium hosts K104's annual KFest concert held in early June, as well as a rock concert, usually held in late August. Performing artists have included Akon, Rihanna, Fat Joe, Counting Crows, Collective Soul, Wilco, Def Leppard, Bob Dylan, Drake and Adam Lambert, among others.

On July 15, 2014, it was announced that Manhattan College's baseball team would play all its home competitions at the stadium. [17] The team played its final season at the stadium in 2019 before returning to Van Cortlandt Park.

The stadium's first football tenant, the Hudson Valley Fort of the Fall Experimental Football League, took up residence in the stadium in October 2015. [18] Some high school football playoff contests were also to be held at the stadium that year, but the stadium was later determined to be unsafe as a football venue and those games were canceled. [19]

Features

In addition to concessions, the stadium features a kids area, which includes an ice cream shop and play areas. The entire field, excluding the pitchers mound and home plate area, was converted to AstroTurf in the spring of 2014. [20]

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