(Fort Wayne) - The man who has ultimate responsibility for seeing that the Harrison Square project gets built says the baseball stadium development is right on schedule to open in the spring of 2009.

Jim Irwin, who is in town from Atlanta, talked with reporter Jeff Neumeyer Wedneseday, ahead of the project's groundbreaking, which is scheduled for 11:30 this morning at Jefferson Blvd. and Webster St.

Irwin says the baseball stadium itself has undergone some minor design changes, but that the revisions would go unnoticed by the public.

The land where the development is being built is a muddy mess right now, but that won't stop the official groundbreaking from taking place.

The project includes a new hotel, parking garage, condos and retail space, but the highlight will be a new ballpark for the Fort Wayne Wizards.

Despite the fact petroleum and steel prices have shot through the roof, Irwin insists that won't drive up the price tag on the stadium.

Jim Irwin/Harrison Square Developer: " We've been given a directive by the city to build a ballpark on budget and right now it is, and we're going to get it in where we're supposed to. Probably over 90 percent of the people we're using to design it, to build it, are local, and it's a great story for Fort Wayne."

Meanwhile, we now know the 62 condos that are part of the project will start out around $150,000, moving up to about $350,000 for the higher end models.

Interested buyers can begin reserving those units on Friday.