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High Point Breaks Ground On Newly Minted BB&T Point Stadium

An artist's rendering of the proposed stadium in High Point. Courtesy City of High Point.

A new baseball stadium in the Triad now has an official name - High Point's ball field will be known as BB&T Point.

City leaders announced the new moniker during a groundbreaking ceremony for the multi-use facility Wednesday.

It's the latest sports venue to carry the Winston-Salem-based company's name. It's already on such places as BB&T Field - where Wake Forest University plays its home football games - and the BB&T Ballparks where the Winston-Salem Dash and Charlotte Knights minor-league teams play in their respective cities.

The $30 million dollar stadium project is the centerpiece of a plan to reinvigorate High Point's downtown.

It will host a relocated independent minor league team from the Atlantic League that was formerly called the Bridgeport Bluefish.

The team's new name has yet to be announced. They are expected to start playing here in 2019.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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