The overall TIF district up at University Town Center — the one with retail and office space, plus the new baseball park — isn’t even finalized. Realistically, it’s probably premature to talk about dollars and cents, what when we’re still talking about the sense of the matter.

Still, it looks like it’s going forward and is on track for reality. So Wednesday, the day Monongalia County’s commissioners voted 3-0 to push the plan on to the next phase, Athletic Director Oliver Luck approximated $15-20 million.

“The majority of the money will come from the TIF, but we’ll make a contribution and ultimately I’d imagine the minor league team would make a contribution and eventually take over all the operations and maintenance of the building,” Luck said. “We really don’t want to have to spend money on an ongoing basis, and that’s the benefit of having a minor league team there.”