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Building History

Petco Park has been the Major League Baseball home of the San Diego Padres of the National League since 2004. It replaced the multipurpose San Diego Stadium, built in 1967, aka "San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium" (1981-1997), "Qualcomm Field" (1997-12/2011 and 2012-2017), "Snapdragon Stadium" (12/12011) and "San Diego County Credit Union (SDCCU) Stadium" (2017-2021).

Executive Architect: HOK Sport; Design Architect: Antoine Predock; Sports Architect: HOK Sport; Landscape Architect: Spurlock Poirier; Urban Planner: ROMA.

In Predock's 2024 obiituary, New York Times.com writer Fred A. Bernstein said of the architect's design for Petco Park: "Mr. Predock’s best-known project may be the Padres’ stadium, now known as Petco Park. Looking for a structure that would help revitalize San Diego’s East Village neighborhood, the Padres turned to Mr. Predock in a rare instance of a well-known architect designing a modern ballpark. 'There was a lot of pressure' to base his design on classic parks like Wrigley Field, he said, but imitation would have been a 'cop-out.' Instead, he designed a stadium suggestive of its industrial setting, ringed by blocky masonry buildings that help bring the stadium complex down to pedestrian scale. Its many notable features include an outfield-adjacent lawn where fans can watch a game while picnicking. The stadium, which opened in 2004, was a hit with the public as well as with developers, who invested heavily in the neighborhood around it." (See Fred A. Bernstein, New York Times.com, "Antoine Predock, Architect Who Channeled the Southwest, Dies at 87," published 03/05/2024, accessed 03/27/2024.)

PCAD id: 2477