Stadium Seating

Two fields at each of the ball diamond quads will have concrete stadium seating. Construction crews began the first seating bowl last week. Here are a few photos of the progress...

View from first base coaches box area

Pouring the second row...

Prepping to pour the top row...

Oh, and our dugouts get concrete floors too!

Photos of the front of the Park HQ building with a closeup of the stone columns

Softball quad...

Local Press

The Elizabethtown Sports Park has enjoyed some local press recently, click on the links below to check it out!

Multimillion dollar facility in Etown gets national recognition

Elizabethtown hopes to attract sports tournament money

Mid September 2011

Here are some progress photos taken this week, enjoy...

Another grass shot...

bare areas filling in...

Look close to see the runners!

Stadium seating concrete in baseball

Softball field irrigation

Pouring concrete grandstand pads @ Championship fields

Stone columns @ Park HQ building

I sure hope this Electrician knows what he's looking at because I don't...

Pouring the deck for the sports field parking bridge

This poor guy has to install climbing pegs on almost 80 light poles...

September 2011 Aerials

Hello, we had some aerial photos taken last week. You can really see the construction progress and the park taking shape. Notice the grass growing in on the sports fields and the infield mix being placed on the the ball diamonds!

How about a photo from the ground level on Sports Field # 1 !

New York Times Article

Read about the Sports Park in the New York Times Business section!

To Bolster Family Tourism, Fields of Play for Young Athletes

Infield Dirt Mixer

For the infields of our 12 ball diamonds, I wanted a great playing surface. I recent years I've been hearing some really good things about an infield product from Natural Sand Company out of Western PA, DuraEdge. DuraEdge is an engineered infield material that can be blended to our specifications. We found that it was possible to ship the raw clay/silt material from their quarry and blend it on-site with a locally sourced sand. Since our mix is 72% sand, that cuts down on costs greatly. We're only shipping about 784 tons of material from PA for the total 2800 tons of finished product needed for the fields. So 2016 tons of sand is coming from Bonnieville Sand & Gravel, 20 miles south of Elizabethtown. They literally dig the sand out of the hillside and screen and wash it to achieve a final product.

Here are a couple links to read about what makes a good infield mix:
http://janddturf.blogspot.com/2010/01/infield-mixes-volume-2-what-makes-good.html
http://janddturf.blogspot.com/2010/01/infield-mix-volume-3.html

And here are some photos of the on-site blending...

Pug mill upon arrival

Trial run

a little sand, and a little clay...

Final product being installed on field...

Here is a great article on proper infield maintenance:
http://www.sportsfieldmanagementmagazine.com/article-7280.aspx


More photos of other Park happenings...

Far Northwest corner of Park, looking back of Field Sports area

Ball diamond in Quad B

Quad B

Closeup of poles

Light fixture closeup

Quad c