Cubs Want To Add Seats Behind Home Plate Next Season
By Chuck Sudo in News on Oct 3, 2012 9:00PM
Crain’s Chicago Business reports the Cubs plan to add 56 premium seats behind home plate during the offseason.
The Cubs proposal is on Thursday’s agenda for the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. (View it here as a PDF file. Go to Page 5 for the Wrigley plan.) Because of Wrigley Field’s landmark status, the Cubs need the approval of the Commission in order to add the seats, which ESPN estimates would generate an extra $1 million per season for the ballclub.
The Commission granted landmark status to Wrigley Field in 2004. The Cubs added three rows of seats from dugout to dugout that same year. We wonder if this proposal could have been made easier if Mayor Rahm Emanuel hadn’t given the Ricketts family the freeze-out after patriarch Joe Ricketts’ plan to derail President Obama’s re-election campaign was revealed.