
Nippon-Ham held a press conference at Escon on the 2nd and announced that the location for their farm team relocation has been tentatively decided as Eniwa City, Hokkaido. They aim to open the facility in 2030 or 2031.
The site will be located between JR Chitose Line's Megumino Station and Shimamatsu Station, covering a total of 46 hectares. This is a vast area, roughly equivalent to 10 Tokyo Dome. The facilities will be a hybrid of public and private construction, but the details will be finalized in the future. Plans include a main stadium with a capacity of 3,000 to 5,000 people, an indoor practice facility, a players' dormitory, commercial spaces, residential areas, and accommodation facilities.
Regarding the total investment, Ken Kobayashi, Executive Officer and Deputy General Manager of the Corporate Division at The Fighters Sports & Entertainment (FSE), explained the scale of the project, saying, "You can think of baseball-related facilities as being not much different from typical farm team facilities. As for the surrounding development, we will at least be doing commercial, residential, and lodging facilities, so as Maezawa (President of FSE) may have mentioned in an interview a while ago, I think the total investment will be 20 billion or 30 billion yen or more."