Attorney Hoping to Build Ballpark
An Orange County lawyer has joined at least three other developers hoping to build minor league baseball stadiums or sports complexes in western Ventura County.
Even as a Ventura City Council subcommittee considers a financing plan for the proposed 5,000-seat Centerplex ballpark, attorney Robert Pearson is plotting a stadium plan of his own in nearby Camarillo. Pearson, whose project is separate from yet another Camarillo sports complex project pitched by Olympic skater Tim L. Wood, said he is confident his project will ultimately get built and attract a California League team.
Factors in the proposed Ventura project are “not just the $18 million to construct the facility,” Pearson said. “There is an enormous amount of roadway infrastructure needed that is not generally being talked about.”
The owner of about 50 acres just south the Ventura Freeway between Central Avenue and Las Posas Road, Pearson said his project would be paid for entirely out of private-sector money.
Oxnard developer Stanley Moorman also has said he wants to build a stadium in that city but has never applied for permits from city officials there.
Nonetheless, California League President Joe Gagliardi said he remains committed to Ventura, where the City Council is expected to vote on a financing plan for the Centerplex project on July 22.
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