The Lansing Lugnuts, a minor league club in Michigan, will have their April season opener in the newly named Cooley Law School Stadium.
Thomas M. Cooley Law School officials announced the renaming of the former Oldsmobile Park, located a half-mile away from the school, this week.
Under the agreement, the law school will pay $1.485 million over 11 years, the length of the team’s lease with the City of Lansing, Mich., the Associate Press reports. The team and city will split the revenues.
“We are thrilled to make this long-term investment that will benefit, not only our students and employees, but the entire community and region for years to come,” said Dean Don LeDuc said.
The stadium opened 15 years ago. But General Motors Co., which stopped building Oldsmobiles in 2004, declined to renew its sponsorship agreement as it fell into bankruptcy last year.
The Lugnuts are a Toronto Blue Jays affiliate in the Class A Midwest League.