- Extra-Inning Win
Opening day at San Diego's Petco Park, April 8, 2004, ended with a 4-3, 10-inning victory for the Padres over the visiting San Francisco Giants. The day also represented a hard-earned win for the ballpark's Building Team, whose members, including 67 of the 68 subcontractors, stuck together to finish the ......
- New 49ers Stadium to Incorporate Innovative Design Elements
Plans for the San Francisco 49ers' new 68,000-seat stadium project (pictured) have been updated. The new venue, which the team hopes to complete in time for the 2012 NFL season, is set to feature a number of innovative elements that will make it a prototype of the next generation of ......
- Plans Unveiled for Candlestick Point in San Francisco
Lennar Communities' Bay Area urban division has unveiled plans for the new Candlestick Point mixed-use development in San Francisco, which would feature a new football stadium for the 49ers NFL team. Lennar was chosen by the city and the team for the project, the goal of which is to bring ......
- Constructing a Convertible
When the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals decided to build a new stadium in 2000, the desert climate was a major consideration of the design plan. The Cardinals had difficulty drawing fans to Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, especially early in the season, because of the torturous heat that often ......
- New Stadium For Arizona Cardinals
After nearly five years of starts and stops, construction on the new Arizona Cardinals stadium and multipurpose center is going full bore and taking a different approach. Rather than building the facility in layers from the foundation up, it will be built in sections like a pie. And there is ......
- Home Field Advantage
New stadium construction can be easier than renovation mostly because there tends to be more room to work. Camp Randall Stadium, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, is no exception. The stadium is bounded by the adjacent streets, Breese Terrace, Monroe, Randall, and University Avenue. The Camp Randall complex includes ......
- Shots Heard 'Round NAA: Slugger Si Takes Swings at Parade's Ballpark Party
The hit of opening day at the Newspaper Association of America convention in San Francisco might have been batting practice at the Giants' beautiful SBC Park at China Basin yesterday. And few did it better than veteran S.I. Newhouse Jr., whose exploits were the talk of at least part of ......