{"id":186518,"date":"2025-07-18T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/186518\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:58:10","slug":"target-field-to-undergo-5-25m-premium-seating-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/186518\/","title":{"rendered":"Target Field to undergo $5.25M premium seating renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Target Field\u2019s most premium seats will see \u201cup to\u201d $5.25M in upgrades after the Minnesota Ballpark Authority signed off \u201con a refresh\u201d to the Twins\u2019 ballpark, according to Katie Galioto of the MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE. Before the start of the 2026 season, the Champions Club &#8212; a 430-seat luxury section 50 feet behind home plate &#8212; will \u201chave new concessions equipment, furniture and floors.\u201d The more opened-up area will \u201calso create additional seating indoors, thanks in part to taxpayer dollars.\u201d Financing for the project \u201cwill come from the ballpark authority\u2019s capital reserve fund,\u201d which Hennepin County and the Twins \u201ccontribute to annually.\u201d It will be the \u201cfirst time money from the fund is going toward upgrades not accessible to all guests.\u201d Officials from the Twins and the authority said that the 16-year-old Champions Club \u201cneeds an overhaul to remain competitive with other luxury spaces in the market and across the league.\u201d Twins SVP\/Operations Matthew Hoy noted that Target Field \u201cwill require additional updates in the future\u201d as it nears the end of its second decade. Some of the facility\u2019s technology \u201cis original to 2010,\u201d the year the stadium opened (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-twins-target-field-upgrade-champions-club-luxury-premium-seating-mlb\/601434108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-twins-target-field-upgrade-champions-club-luxury-premium-seating-mlb\/601434108\">MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE, 7\/17<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Target Field\u2019s most premium seats will see \u201cup to\u201d $5.25M in upgrades after the Minnesota Ballpark Authority signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,6035,9601,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-186518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-deals","10":"tag-fan-experience","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-twins","13":"tag-minnesotatwins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}