The Bergen Ballpark was a proposed 8,000-seat baseball-only stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey

East Rutherford, New Jersey

East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,913. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....

, intended to be the home of the Bergen Cliff Hawks

Bergen Cliff Hawks

The Bergen Cliff Hawks were a proposed minor league baseball team to be based in Bergen County, New Jersey. The team planned to play in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball....

. The stadium was to be part of the larger Meadowlands Xanadu project that is currently under construction. Bergen Ballpark was in the planning stages since 2001, but local politics and a lease agreement between the Mills Corporation

Mills Corporation

The Mills Corporation was a publicly traded real estate investment trust headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States, acquired on April 3, 2007 by an investment group composed of Simon Property Group and Farallon Capital Management. The company developed, owned, and operated major...

, the company who built the Xanadu and would own the ballpark, halted plans in 2005.