Mayor Joe Smith said North Little Rock is paying for choosing beauty over stable ground when officials decided to build Dickey-Stephens Park so close to the Arkansas River, and he isn’t sure there is a viable solution to the sinkhole problems that have plagued the baseball stadium since 2008.
The most recent incident occurred last season, when sinkholes again developed on the home field of the Class AA Arkansas Travelers minor league baseball team after historic flooding along the Arkansas River.
It marked the third series of sinkholes developing on the field since the stadium was completed in 2007.