3-09-08 Venue UpdateIn spite of Friday's surprise whiteout both Swope and CAB made great progress.
In the photo below that’s not snow on Field 3 -- thankfully it melted as quickly as it came -- that’s 2,500 tons of base gravel, finally in place on a dry sub base...amazing what a little sun lets you accomplish. Next comes the installation and laser grading of 400 tons of the top layer of fine gravel on Sunday and Monday, then a final survey on Tuesday and we’re ready for FieldTurf to go down. The sports lights are all wired and we’ll turn them on for the first time later this coming week.
Outside the field, concrete stairs and sidewalks are complete and all that’s left is a little fencing work, installation of the kick nets and working the final grades in preparation for seeding.
Out at CAB, you can hardly recognize the place. The concrete work for the Cauldron seating is finished and looks great. Bleachers for this section arrive this week and will take the next two weeks to install. And the best thing is weather can’t delay us now. Hope that wasn’t a jinks.
But the really big change is the addition of the concourse bleachers. This type of seating goes in quickly -- the builder, Seating Solutions, arrived Thursday morning and the pictures below were taken late Saturday afternoon. The photos give you a good idea of how these stands enclose the NW corner of the stadium and how the fans in these seats will have greats views to the action.
Out at CAB, you can hardly recognize the place. The concrete work for the Cauldron seating is finished and looks great. Bleachers for this section arrive this week and will take the next two weeks to install. And the best thing is weather can’t delay us now. Hope that wasn’t a jinks.
But the really big change is the addition of the concourse bleachers. This type of seating goes in quickly -- the builder, Seating Solutions, arrived Thursday morning and the pictures below were taken late Saturday afternoon. The photos give you a good idea of how these stands enclose the NW corner of the stadium and how the fans in these seats will have greats views to the action.
I threw this last shot in so you can see the controlled chaos of a site just before it is finished. The view is from just inside Gate B looking down the under-stand concourse toward Gate C.
This coming week we look to set our new box office outside Gate B and the TV commentary cabins on the concourse.
20 days left and it’s all coming together nicely!
Go Wizards,
DF
Wow, that was fast *knock on wood*
ReplyDeleteCAB looks great....what a transformation in one week!
ReplyDeleteJust leave the Cauldron as is....they never sit anyway, right? hehehe
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