A LOOK BACK:
ONE YEAR AFTER THE GROUNDBREAKING OF GLOBE LIFE FIELD
In September 2017, Rangers
representatives joined the City of
Arlington and MLB Commissioner
Robert Manfred to break ground
on the future home of the Texas
Rangers. In the 12 months since the
groundbreaking, the site has been
transformed from a parking lot into
the shell of the future home of the
Texas Rangers.
The 365 days of progress on the 1.7
million square foot project started
with 97,000 trucks removing 1.3
million cubic yards of dirt. Reaching
50 feet below street level took six
months of construction, one of the
longest steps on the project to date.
“The first six months after breaking
ground was really spent doing
foundation work and getting rid
of the dirt,” said Jack Hill, Rangers'
senior vice president of project
development. “You can see a
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tremendous amount of progress
has been made really in six to seven
months, considering we didn’t really
get started until the dirt was out of
here.”
Click here to watch a time-lapse
video of construction on Globe
Life Field.
The foundation work involved
drilling 780 piers into the ground to
construct the building foundation.
The March construction of
concrete columns was the next
major milestone, followed by the
installation of the first steel beam in
June.
As of September, just three months
after the first piece of steel was
erected, work on the 16,000 tons of
structural steel for the seating bowl
is 50 percent complete.
“Tremendous progress has been
made with not only the steel, but
the concrete,” Hill added. “They’ve put
most of the mid-level bowl in, and
now we’re focusing on pouring the
concrete for the steel decks.”
The seating bowl became a
recognizable ballpark as soon as
the pre-cast treads and risers were
installed in late summer. An estimated
75,000 cubic yards of concrete have
already been poured on the site, with
about 50,000 cubic yards remaining.
As the shell of the ballpark has started
to take shape above ground, key work
is also happening below street view,
on both the lower concourse and
service areas of the ballpark.
“There’s a lot of functions for the
stadium to operate that take place in
the tunnel, so we’re focusing a lot of
our attention putting up block walls,
running duct work, and installing
electrical and plumbing services that
will service the building,” Hill said.