Arlington, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – In the twelve months since the groundbreaking for the new Texas Rangers, Globe Life Field, the site has been transformed from parking lot to the shell of where the new 1.7-million square foot structure is being built.
97-thousand trucks removed over a million cubic yards of dirt for the structure that will reach 50-feet below street level.
Rangers Senior Vice President of Project Development Jack Hill said. “You can see a tremendous amount of progress that has been made really in six to seven months, considering we didn’t really get started until the dirt was out of here.”
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 are only 18 months left until the gates pf the new ballpark open to more than 40-000 fans.
Nearly 1,000 construction workers are working around the clock on the project.
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