Baseball fans and downtown leaders anxious to celebrate the long-anticipated opening of a new center city ballpark are in for a longer wait.

The timeline for completing construction of the stadium that will serve as a new home for the San Antonio Missions and extend the city's more than century-long run in professional baseball has been pushed back a year.

The new stadium will be designed to accommodate roughly 7,500 spectators - on a site along the redeveloped San Pedro Creek.