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Metro extends Greer lease for Sounds owner

Metro Nashville Council has unanimously approved an agreement which will allow MFP Baseball, a group of investors applying for ownership of the Nashville Sounds AAA baseball franchise, to lease Greer Stadium and begin upgrading the 30-plus-year-old ballpark.

The council’s approval at a special meeting Tuesday was needed to extend a lease that had been granted to the team’s departing owner, but was due to expire Dec. 31. The new lease allows MFP to stay in the stadium for up to five years, and it requires that the new owners make improvements to the dilapidated facility.

“We hope to have as much of the work as is possible completed by opening day, which is April 9,” MFP partner Frank Ward says in a news release. Masahiro Honzawa and Steve Posner are the other partners in MFP.

Contracts for the work are expected to be secured by next month, and construction will begin around Feb. 1.

While the lease leaves the new owners some latitude in prioritizing the improvements, they plan to repair or upgrade restrooms, concession stands, the scoreboard, the sound system and seats, according to a release from the prospective team owners. There also are some safety and accessibility issues that MFP has agreed to address.

The ownership group will proceed with the work as it awaits final approval from the Pacific Coast League and Major League Baseball for its acquisition of the Milwaukee Brewers minor league franchise.

The leagues are expected to issue their decision about MFP’s ownership by late January, according to Ward.

In all, at least $1.75 million will go into upgrades at Greer.

"This stadium is old and will never be a perfect environment. But we will do all we can to make it clean, safe and accessible," Ward says. "Hopefully, someday soon we can begin discussing a new ballpark, but for right now our focus is on Greer.”

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