Dive Brief:

• Ground has been broken for an 8,500-seat baseball stadium that that the city-county government of metropolitan Nashville, Tenn., is constructing for the hometown minor league team, the Nashville Sounds.
• The $65 million project, designed by Gobell Hays and the Populous firm, will be built by Bell & Associates Construction.
• Scheduled to open for the 2015 season of the Triple-A Sounds' Pacific Coast League, the stadium is seen as a catalyst for the area where it is being built, and a 250-unit residential project and a mixed-use retail project by the team's owners are in the works.

Dive Insight:

The Sounds, a Milwaukee Brewers affiliate, will leave behind the metro government's Herschel Greer Stadium. The new park is going to be on the site of the former Nashville Stadium that was built in 1870 and was known by the intriguing nickname of Sulphur Dell.