Coca-Cola Park

• Name: Coca-Cola Park
• GPS-able Address: 1050 IronPigs Way, Allentown, PA 18109
• Ballpark Owner: Lehigh County
• Architects: HOK Sport (now Populous)
• Groundbreaking: 9/6/2006
• Minor League Baseball Teams: Lehigh Valley IronPigs (AAA) 2009-present
• Class/League History: AAA/International League 2022-present; AAA/Triple-A East 2021; AAA/International League 2008-2020
• First Professional Baseball Game: 3/30/2008; IronPigs-Phillies exhibition
• Others Playing or Operating Here: None
• Previous Ballpark Names: None
• LF: 323 CF: 409 RF: 369
• Seats: 8,278
• Stated Capacity: 10,100
• House Baseball/Softball Record Attendance (as currently configured): 10,188, 3/30/2008

Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, PA, is the home of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Philadelphia Phillies' Triple-A International League farm team. It was also the Phillies' 2020 and 2021 Coronavirus pandemic alternate training site.

In alternating years since 2008, except when blocked by the usual suspects like weather or the unusual ones like the Coronavirus pandemic, it also hosted the Pigs' annual (U.S. Route) 222 exhibition game with their Double-A Philly farm-mates, the Reading Fightin Phils. However, a new suspect has blocked a 2023 game and neither team knows if it will be permanent: with MLB having Triple-A and Double-A start nearly a week apart, such a pre-season game is virtually impossible to schedule.

Opened in 2008, the HOK Sport (now Populous) playpen landed the former Ottawa Lynx. "BaconUSA" has fewer than 8,300 seats, yet its club averages more than that per game every year - and the average topped 9,000 for six straight seasons from 2009 through 2014. Sellouts are reported as 10,100, with one exception: Its debut, a Pigs-Philadelphia Phillies exhibition game, reported 10,188.

MLB imposed new facility standards in its 2021 Minor League Reorganization, and the club originally estimated getting the ballpark - which is owned not by Allentown but by Lehigh County - into compliance would cost nearly $10 million. The standards come with a points system with a target that is advisory the first two years but must be met by April 2025. Despite the hiccup of the Allentown City Council reversing a $2 million commitment, the county and the team jointly announced on December 16, 2022, that the necessary renovations had been funded by several other sources and would be finished before the 2023 season opens - and that the Phillies have pledged to fund more improvements above the requirements.[1]

On March 9, 2023, the 'Pigs held a news conference to announce that required upgrades will be named the St. Luke's Sports Training Center for "terrific partner" St. Luke's University Health Network.[2]

On April 8, 2016, the IronPigs played an Opening Day doubleheader against the Syracuse Chiefs in front of zero fans. There were attenuating circumstances, though: The games were originally scheduled to be played in Syracuse, NY, but persistent bad weather had made the NBT Bank Stadium field unplayable. The two teams thus agreed at the last minute to move the games to Allentown. Not only was there little chance to sell tickets to the weekday twin bill, Coca-Cola Park was undergoing construction, so the decision was made not to allow spectators.

In August 2022, National League Most Valuable Player Bryce Harper fully demonstrated both the strategic and business value of rehabilitation assignments. Sent to Allentown for a projected five-day assignment starting the 24th, he hit home runs in his first two at bats that day, went 3-for-5 the next including a walk-off double, didn't play on the third day and was reactivated by the Phillies on the fourth. His two appearances and the unscheduled miss - a Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday string - all sold out.

The site was previously an electronics manufacturing plant on the banks of the Lehigh River.