Miller Park is a baseball stadium located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is home to the Milwaukee Brewers and was built as a replacement for Milwaukee County Stadium.

The park is located just Southwest of the intersection of Interstate 94 and Miller Park Way (U.S. Highway 41).

Miller Park was built with $310 million of public funds, which was controversial, particularly due to the fact that the team owner, Bud Selig (also the Commissioner of Baseball) was highly unpopular locally. Construction was subject to numerous delays. Groundbreaking took place on October 22, 1996, in a parking lot behind County Stadium. Construction had already been slowed, and the originally planned opening date of Opening Day 1999 had already been pushed back and was delayed even further after three construction workers were killed in a tragic accident. The massive Lampson Transi-lift crane (nicknamed "Big Blue"), brought in to build the roof, collapsed while lifting a 400 ton roof section on July 14, 1999. The stadium did not open until Opening Day 2001.

The stadium has a retractable roof, built in a unique convertible style, with the roof panels opening and closing simultaneously in a sweeping manner from the first base and third base sides towards center field. The huge roof explained a large part of the $400 million cost of the stadium.

The stadium design follows the trend of retro-designed ballparks with current amenities that began in 1990's. The design of Miller Park most closely resembles that of Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1938 to 1957.

The original grass playing surface was installed on March 10, 2001.

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