do and decisions to be made before the ballpark’s
inaugural home opener in 2020. the current 18-inch seats filled by fans at Globe Life
Park.
“We’ve been out here since August working 20 hours
a day, seven days a week hauling off more than a
million cubic yards of dirt. While that was going on,
we were rerouting a 48-inch sanitary sewer line that
went through the site and installing utilities that will
serve the ballpark and Texas Live! entertainment
complex,” said Jack Hill, senior vice president
of project development. “But there was a lot of
planning that took place before the first spade of dirt
was even turned.” “They are going to be wider, more comfortable,
roomier seats,” he said.
Since the September 2017 groundbreaking on the
public-private ballpark project, decisions have been
reached on steel and glass suppliers, elevators and
escalators, and even the large translucent panels
that will be part of the venue’s retractable roof. But
the Rangers are still reviewing some architectural
elements and the technology that will go into the
ballpark, including videoboards and televisions. Concrete work is also under way. All the foundation
elements for the ballpark have been started,
including installation of more than 700 piers.
“The decisions that will be made here in the next few
months are the brick and the stone and paint colors,”
Hill said. “The decisions we have to make now are
primarily the ones on the items the fans will interact
with, the types of seats, the colors of the seat and the
all the finishing materials.”
And while the roughly 40,000 stadium seats haven’t
yet been ordered, Hill said they will be larger than
In the meantime, crews are wrapping up work on a
new 48-inch sanitary sewer line that will serve not
only Globe Life Park, the future ballpark and the
Texas Live! entertainment complex, but also about
one-quarter of the city. Instead of digging an open
trench that would have been 45-feet deep, large
tunnel boring machines were brought in to install
about 1,800 feet of the sanitary sewer line.
Click here to see the Globe Life Field construction
webcam.
And once the installation of utilities is complete,
work will begin on the north plaza area between
Randol Mill Road and the new ballpark. The plan
is for the plaza, which will include landscaping,
digital billboards and a water feature, to be open by
September in time for the opening of Texas Live!
“It’s really kind of a gateway to Globe Life Field,” Hill
said. “It will be a place you enjoy taking your kids
or walking around with your family. It will be a very
pleasant place.”
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