Maestro Stadium

Maestro Stadium is a stadium that opened on June 4, 1991. It is located in Newport News, Virginia and is owned by Carwardine Parks. It is the home stadium of the Virginia Maestros of Major League Baseball (MLB), a team owned by the Carwardine family.

History
A group headed by Christopher R. Carwardine was awarded with an expansion Major League Baseball franchise for the state of in 1984. In 1986, the Virginia Maestros began playing their home games at in, which was chosen as a interim venue until a location for a "permanent" ballpark for the team was chosen and said ballpark was built & opened. However, overtime it was discovered that The Diamond (a college baseball venue) was unsuitable for the major leagues. Eventually, the need for a new ballpark for the Maestros was discovered. In 1988, the City of offered Christopher (who owned the Newport News-based Carwardine Parks) land in the city to build a stadium.

Construction for Maestro Stadium began on January 4, 1989. The stadium opened on June 4, 1991 and hosted it's first baseball game on April 15, 1992. The "Maestro Stadium" name was chosen due to it's focuses on concerts and it's namesake major tenant.

The stadium's seating sections can move using air casters into various configurations for different sport venues and other purposes (much like and Allen Stadium), including a diamond configuration for baseball, an oval for football, or a triangle for concerts. While the air caster system at Aloha Stadium has been inactive since 2007 due to maintenance issues (causing fellow MLB team Honolulu Warriors to build their own ballpark) and Allen Stadium's air caster system is only used on occasion, Maestro Stadium's air caster system is still frequently used.

This stadium gets expanded every year, with a plaque at the entrance saying "Maestro Stadium will never be complete", a quote jokingly said by  in 1995.

The stadium's biggest sold-out event was a concert by in 1994.

The stadium was originally going to have the bricks painted white and pink, but due to knowing these color schemes would age, the bricks were kept there natural "timeless" color of brownish red.

Area A
Area A is located southwest of Floor 1
 * Area A Bathrooms (male/female bathrooms, in the female bathrooms, the urinals are replaced with squat toilets)
 * Area A Pepsi Machine (a Pepsi machine)
 * Area A Convention (a 10 seat convention area)
 * Area A Sensitive Seats (a 5 seat window box area for sensitive people)
 * Area A Seats (10,000 seats)

Area B
Area B is located south of Floor 1
 * Area B Bathrooms (male bathrooms)
 * Area B Seats (12,000 seats)

Area C
Area C is located southeast of Floor 1
 * Area C Bathrooms (male/female bathrooms, in the female bathrooms, the urinals are replaced with normal toilets)
 * Area C Seats (13,000 seats)
 * Area C Coke Machine (a Coke machine)

Area D
Area D is located east of Floor 1
 * Area D Bathrooms (female bathrooms)
 * Area D Seats (14,000 seats)

Area E
Area E is located northeast of Floor 1
 * Area E Bathrooms (male/female bathrooms, in the female bathrooms, the urinals go all the way to the ground)
 * Area E Seats (12,500 seats)
 * Area E Convention (a 15 seat convention area)
 * Area E Sensitive Seats (a 15 seat window box area for sensitive people)
 * Area E Dr. Pepper Machine (a Dr. Pepper machine)

Area F
Area F is located north of Floor 1
 * Area F Bathrooms (female bathrooms)
 * Area F Seats (12,345 seats)
 * Area F Service Dog Area (service dog areas for using the bathroom, dog-sitting and a "bone parlor")

Area G
Area G is located northwest of Floor 1
 * Area G Seats (11,111 seats)

Area H
Area H is located west of Floor 1
 * Area H Bathrooms (male bathrooms)
 * Area H Seats (12,121 seats)

Area I
Area I is located southwest of Floor 2
 * Area I Seats (21,111 seats)

Area J
Area J is located south of Floor 2
 * Area J Bathrooms (male bathrooms)
 * Area J Seats (22,222 seats)

Area K
Area K is located southeast of Floor 2
 * Area K Seats (23,333 seats)
 * Area K Bathrooms (male/female/disabled bathrooms, female bathrooms replace the urinals with modified waterless urinals)
 * Area K Convention (a 20 seat convention area)

Area L
Area L is located east of Floor 2
 * Area L Seats (20,000 seats)
 * Area L Bathrooms (female bathrooms)

Area M
Area M is located northeast of Floor 2
 * Area M Seats (21,212 seats)
 * Area M Bathrooms (male bathrooms)

Area N
Area N is located north of Floor 2
 * Area N Seats (21,111 seats)
 * Area N Bathrooms (male/female bathrooms, in the female bathrooms, the urinals are replaced with normal toilets)

Area O
Area O is located northwest of Floor 2

Area P
Area P is located west of Floor 2

Area Q
Area Q is located southwest of Floor 3

Area R
Area R is located south of Floor 3

Area S
Area S is located southeast of Floor 3

Area T
Area T is located east of Floor 3

Area U
Area U is located northeast of Floor 3

Area V
Area V is located north of Floor 3

Area W
Area W is located northwest of Floor 3

Area X
Area X is located west of Floor 3

Area Y
Area Y is located south of Floor 4

Area Z
Area Z is located north of Floor 4

Area AA [added 1992]
Area AA is located west of Floor 4

Trivia

 * This Area opened with the first baseball game

Area AB [added 1993]
Area AB is located east of Floor 4

Area AC [added 1993]
Area AC is located northeast of Floor 4

Area AD [added 1993]
Area AD is located northwest of Floor 4

Area AE [added 1993]
Area AE is located southwest of Floor 4

Area AF [added 1994]
Area AF is located southeast of Floor 4

Area AG [added 1994]
Area AG is located east of Floor 5

Area AH [added 1994]
Area AH is located northeast of Floor 5

Area AI [added 1995]
Area AI is located north of Floor 5

Area AJ [added 1995]
Area AJ is located northwest of Floor 5

Area AK [added 1996]
Area AK is located southeast of Floor 5

Area AL [added 1996]
Area AL is located southwest of Floor 5

Area AM [added 1997]
Area AM is located west of Floor 5

Area AN [added 1997]
Area AN is located south of Floor 5

Area AO [added 1998]
Area AO is located southwest of Floor 6

Map
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