As we know the ball park is scheduled to be kinda complete by April 28, 2014, only 17 days after the first game is scheduled to be played there.
Several readers have questioned the lack of progress updates from the city. Also people have been asking to see what the final design looks like. What are the dimensions of the field?
I have not been able to find much new information on the city’s web site but I did find this in an article from Ballparkdigest.com:
To say the entire process has been challenging is an understatement, and building the actual ballpark is proving to be as equally challenging, says David Bower, Senior Architect/Principal at Kansas City-based Populous. The ballpark footprint is small, forcing the site to be expanded onto three of the neighboring streets. That’s also resulting in some funky angles, a vertical orientation and lots of unique spaces in an asymmetric layout.
I’m also wondering about the turf. April is early for grass growing.
We deserve better
Brutus
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What your post proves is that Ballpark Digest can get more a succinct, accurate and realistic assessment of this project than the folks who are paying for it. This ballpark will not be ready. I’m willing to be my last bag of peanuts on that. That’s the reason for the lack of substantive frequent progress reports. Updates are now just superficial statements about how everything is “on schedule.” You can be assured that the City will waive the onerous detailed inspections you would need to occupy any other new building.
The El Paso Times update over the weekend was basically a ticket sales promotion piece. It said sales of high-priced seats (emphasis on high priced) have been great, but it conveniently left out specific numbers other than prices (free advertising). Nothing about sales of ordinary season tickets, which the Times folks are not accustomed to sitting in. There were no hard numbers to support any of the sales claims made by the Chihuahua’s chief yapper, who says that they are even selling bunches of season tickets to people in outlying cities like Alamogordo.
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We will have to come up with some special surprises for opening day. Is there a sky box for city officials? Maybe we can ask the crowd to wave at them, and remind them who is paying for it. Or snap photos of elected and city official being hosted in the suites to post here and on Martin’s blog. Let’s make those special seats politically radioactive for the pimps in our government.
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