Bergen Cliff Hawks and Xanadu to Begin Due Diligence For Meadowlands Stadium
By Atlantic League Independent Wire Services on August 19, 2008
The Bergen Cliff Hawks Baseball Club and Meadowlands Developer Limited Partnership, owner and operator of the Xanadu project at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, have agreed to immediately undertake due diligence to determine the feasibility of constructing a minor league ballpark at Meadowlands Xanadu and operating an Atlantic League baseball team with the ballpark as its home field.
In support of this project, the Bergen Cliff Hawks will dismiss their lawsuit relating to minor league baseball against Meadowlands Xanadu’s former owner, The Mills Corp.
ABOUT THE BERGEN CLIFF HAWKS
The Bergen Cliff Hawks are an expansion franchise of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Contact: Steve Kalafer, P.O. Box 1007, Flemington, New Jersey 08822. Telephone: (908) 782-3673.
ABOUT THE ATLANTIC LEAGUE
The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball Clubs, Inc. began play in 1998. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the League welcomed its 18,000,000th fan this year. The League provides professional baseball and affordable family entertainment in state-of-the-art ballparks in eight communities. The teams include The Long Island Ducks (NY), Newark Bears (NJ), The York Revolution (PA), The Lancaster Barnstormers (PA), The Bridgeport Bluefish (CT), The Camden Riversharks (NJ), the Somerset Patriots (NJ) and the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs (MD). Contact: Joe Klein, 401 N. Delaware Avenue, Camden, NJ 08822. Telephone: 856-541-9400
ABOUT MEADOWLANDS XANADU
Meadowlands Xanadu, under construction in the heart of the NY/NJ metropolitan region, will feature approximately 2.3 million square feet of unique entertainment, interactive attractions, sports and retail unlike any other in the world. The complex features five themed districts, Sports, Entertainment, Youth Culture, Food & Home and Fashion, providing a wide variety of experiences catering to different lifestyles and interests. The spectacular complex in the New Jersey Meadowlands will be home to an observation wheel, top-of-the-line retail stores, gourmet restaurants, America’s first indoor snow dome, a skydiving tower, multiple movie theaters, a concert and live theater venue and much more set in a high-energy, media-rich environment. Meadowlands Xanadu is a unique destination designed to attract 50 million visitors annually, at the nexus of a roadway system traversed by 88 million vehicles annually. It is adjacent to the new NFL home for the Jets and Giants and will be served by a new railroad station providing easy access to Penn Station and New Jersey. It will be a stage where brands, entertainment and technology join to create larger than life experiences. Meadowlands Xanadu is being developed by Meadowlands Development, whose investors include Colony Capital, The Dune Real Estate Funds and KanAm.
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