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The New Jersey Jackals Wednesday will make official a move to Paterson to play at legendary Hinchliffe Stadium, beginning next season.

“We hit a home run for Hinchliffe Stadium,” Mayor Andre Sayegh confirmed to NJBIZ. “Proud that Paterson will be the new home of the New Jersey Jackals.”

The move was widely anticipated following the team’s news in August that it would leave the Yogi Berra Stadium on the Montclair State University campus in Little Falls, which it has called home for 25 years. Immediately after that announcement, Sayegh ratcheted up speculation as he publicly pitched Hinchliffe Stadium as the perfect place for the Jackals. The former Negro League field is in the midst of a massive reconstruction as part of a nearly $100 million development project that officials hope will be completed by the end of the year.

“Paterson is stepping up to the plate,” Sayegh told NJBIZ at the time.

The Jackals’ move to Paterson will be officially announced at a press conference later Wednesday morning by Sayegh, along with Jackals owner and operator Al Dorso and a slew of local officials and business leaders.

“The Jackals are one of the most historic teams at our level of baseball – championships and 25 plus years of baseball are both hard to come by in the indy ball circuit. That we get to continue writing our history at a gorgeous new facility that has a long and storied history of its own makes this one of the best days in franchise history,” Reed Keller, Jackals director of media relations, told NJBIZ. “The ghosts of the past will get to stand beside the stars of the future on Opening Day in 2023 and we’re already counting down the days.”

The officials are expected to outline plans to improve the iconic field and venue while collaborating with local businesses to bring additional entertainment to the Silk City community, such as concerts, kids camps, traveling teams, training and exhibitions, holiday events and more.

The Jackals will kick off a 96-game season in May 2023.

“This is the dawning of a new day for Hinchliffe Stadium,” said Brian LoPinto, co-founder of the Friends of Hinchliffe Stadium told NJBIZ. “Hinchliffe Stadium needs an anchor tenant, and the Jackals calling Hinchliffe Stadium home makes sense. We are hopeful that this will be a long-term relationship.”