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The revival of downtown Fort Wayne was anchored, deliberately, on a ballpark. Harrison Square — ballpark, hotel, condominiums, retail and a parking garage, about $120 million in all — was approved by the City Council, 6–3, on April 24, 2007, with the HOK Sport firm (which became Populous) named as architect two days later; ground was broken on November 29, 2007. Parkview Field opened on April 16, 2009, at a cost of $30.6 million — a retro-styled park quoting the brick and stone of the downtown landmarks around it, 8,100 in capacity, its naming rights sold to Parkview Health for $3 million over ten years. The TinCaps drew 404,418 fans — 378,529 of them in the regular season — and won the Midwest League championship in the first season, and the park became the national model for the downtown minor-league ballpark. The Harrison, opened in 2013 across Jefferson Boulevard, put 44 apartments over 24,000 square feet of ground-floor retail facing the field; a Courtyard by Marriott (2010) and a Hampton Inn (2019) completed the square.
The followers matter as much as the anchor. Ash Brokerage's $29 million headquarters in Ash Skyline Plaza opened in 2016, and its chief executive, Tim Ash, has said plainly that it would not have happened without the Parkview Field and Harrison development. By 2017 the park's sponsors could point to more than $300 million of private downtown investment in its wake, and to the first year — 2017 — in which Allen County issued more than $1 billion in building permits.
Sources: Wikipedia, "Parkview Field" and "Harrison Square" (Populous attribution; $30.6 million cost; the MiLB account gives $31.5 million — see the note file); BaseballParks.com, Parkview Field review (2009); Benjamin Hill, "TinCaps spark a Fort Wayne renaissance," MiLB.com (July 12, 2018), for the Ash quotation and the investment figures.