Requarth
Lumber moved to its location at the comer of Sears Street and Monument Avenue
in October of 1895. For much of the next 75 years the area, known as Webster
Station, was a canal and rail transportation center, bustling with stores,
offices and factories. Over the years nearby businesses came and went, but
mostly went. By the 1980’s this end of Downtown Dayton contained more
than its share of vacant lots and empty or underutilized industrial buildings.
But that all began to change on February 23, 1999 when Mandalay Sports Entertainment announced that Major League Baseball had finaly approved a minor league team for Dayton. A new state-of-the-art $23 million stadium would be built in the heart of Webster Station to house the Dayton Dragons, a Single-A minor league affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. Construction activities soon began and the stadium, now titled Fifth/Third Field, opened to overflow crowds in April, 2000.
Requarth
Lumber now found itself across the street and just over the left field fence
of its gleaming new neighbor. And by the summer of 2000 a young ballplayer
named Austin Kearns would be setting minor league home run records and ricocheting
baseballs off Requarth’s second floor windows. On August 18, 2000, as
their first season drew to a close, the Dayton Dragons broke the Midwest League’s
and Single-A baseball’s single-season attendance record with a mark of
548,675, an average of 8,313 fans per game.
Throughout
construction of the stadium, Requarth Lumber posted regularly updated photos
of the process on its website. Many Daytonians, as well as former residents
from across the country, sent email messages to thank the company for its
coverage of this important community event.
Click here to review highlights of the building of Fifth/Third Field, the home of minor league baseball‘s most anticipated and best attended team, the Dayton Dragons.
Click here to visit the Dayton Dragons official team website
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