Moving day is approaching for Mark Sanders and Corri Tolivar of the Hannibal Cavemen. In the near future they will be relocating the baseball team’s business office from its current location on North Main Street to the team’s fieldhouse at Clemens Field.
“We were going to keep this office until the end of December and move in the first of January or end of December,” said Sanders, the team’s general manager. “As things were progressing pretty quickly we’ll probably be able to move some stuff in this week.”
With the new business offices ready for occupancy, Sanders says it doesn’t make sense to stay on Main Street.
“We like where we’re at here because everybody downtown has been super nice. We thought about keeping the office here being on Main Street where we have some traffic, but we really don’t need both. Financially it’s not probably the best thing to have offices you’re not going to be at daily so we’re going to give up this one here and then move everything down to 403 Warren Barrett Drive, “ he said. “That (Clemens Field fieldhouse) is where our offices, our museum, our locker rooms, all the activities from ticket sales to players coming in is going to be. Everything we’re going to do is in that fieldhouse.”
The team’s new offices are not all that far from its current site, according to Sanders.
“We’re not moving too far. We’re actually still downtown. We’re just down probably 1,000 feet or so,” he said. “It’s going to be good to have a central location. That’s kind of exciting for us to know that that’s going to be the team’s new office for the next two or three decades.”
The carpeting of some portions of the fieldhouse will be delayed slightly until damage caused by vandals overnight last Thursday can be repaired.
“There’s places where there are a few nicks and dinks in the wall. They can probably still do those (repairs) and just put down some plastic (on the carpet), but the ones where they have to do a lot of re-mudding and maybe take one piece of sheetrock out and put another one in, they’ll probably wait to do some of that carpeting,” said Sanders.
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Moving day is approaching for Mark Sanders and Corri Tolivar of the Hannibal Cavemen. In the near future they will be relocating the baseball team’s business office from its current location on North Main Street to the team’s fieldhouse at Clemens Field.
“We were going to keep this office until the end of December and move in the first of January or end of December,” said Sanders, the team’s general manager. “As things were progressing pretty quickly we’ll probably be able to move some stuff in this week.”
With the new business offices ready for occupancy, Sanders says it doesn’t make sense to stay on Main Street.
“We like where we’re at here because everybody downtown has been super nice. We thought about keeping the office here being on Main Street where we have some traffic, but we really don’t need both. Financially it’s not probably the best thing to have offices you’re not going to be at daily so we’re going to give up this one here and then move everything down to 403 Warren Barrett Drive, “ he said. “That (Clemens Field fieldhouse) is where our offices, our museum, our locker rooms, all the activities from ticket sales to players coming in is going to be. Everything we’re going to do is in that fieldhouse.”
The team’s new offices are not all that far from its current site, according to Sanders.
“We’re not moving too far. We’re actually still downtown. We’re just down probably 1,000 feet or so,” he said. “It’s going to be good to have a central location. That’s kind of exciting for us to know that that’s going to be the team’s new office for the next two or three decades.”
The carpeting of some portions of the fieldhouse will be delayed slightly until damage caused by vandals overnight last Thursday can be repaired.
“There’s places where there are a few nicks and dinks in the wall. They can probably still do those (repairs) and just put down some plastic (on the carpet), but the ones where they have to do a lot of re-mudding and maybe take one piece of sheetrock out and put another one in, they’ll probably wait to do some of that carpeting,” said Sanders.
