The Building of Russo Park at Louisiana

[Cajun90]

Does anyone have any idea what they plan on doing with the boxes down 1st and 3rd base lines? Such as permanent seating or redoing the poles and chains between boxes....

I haven't heard about any potential work on that area. With that said there was a substantial budget for furnishing, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E). Might be some money allocated in there.

[Ole Colony]

I hope they don't put permanent seats. I like being able to move the chairs depending on how many we have in the box. Also it is nice to be able to angle the chairs toward home plate. New and better quality chairs would be nice. Permanent seats would make it hard not to have a obstructed view.

[CajunAmos]

My guess is the new netting will extend further down the first/third base lines than it was in the past. My thinking would be like what was installed for softball with a support cable at the top of the net and poles well down the first/third base lines to act as support structures. Cabling from the top of the net back to the top of the grandstand would provide stability and shape.

[Cajun90]

My guess is the new netting will extend further down the first/third base lines than it was in the past. My thinking would be like what was installed for softball with a support cable at the top of the net and poles well down the first/third base lines to act as support structures. Cabling from the top of the net back to the top of the grandstand would provide stability and shape.

I think I did hear something about that. Would make sense because the last thing you want to do with a new stadium is install poles where they obstruct the view. There have also been at least three people that I've personally seen get medical attention because of foul balls at the Tigue that weren't protected by the netting.

[Frenchie35]

Steel going up:

[Boomer]

Steel going up:

---Giving me the fresones (SP) Frenchie----pretty soon you will be able to see your seat---BTW do you want it behind home plate or in front of the press box going down 3rd base???

[LaCajunsFan]

Steel going up:


Man that's a beautiful site!!!

[Frenchie35]

---Giving me the fresones (SP) Frenchie----pretty soon you will be able to see your seat---BTW do you want it behind home plate or in front of the press box going down 3rd base???

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Behind Home plate. Will look at the seating and make a decision then.

[Cajun90]

Looking at the timeline in a little detail this afternoon it looks like we are about six weeks behind the original schedule. The work being done now was originally scheduled for the second week in September. In the original timeline the facility was scheduled to be turned over on the 14th of February. So do the math and that would mean if the original timeline is still the target we are looking at getting into the facility the first week of April.

Now I don't know if we are still on that timeline or not and I do think there are things that could be done without costing additional money that could get us in a little quicker but we are probably talking a couple of weeks at best. The season kicks off on February 17th this year and based on last years schedule we would be looking for an alternative location for 13 games to get us until the 1st of April or 7 games if we were in mid March.

Schedule has 10 days weather contingency. We need this dry weather to hold out. Especially up to the point that the project is fully out of the ground. IF weather holds and they squeeze the timeline slightly this thing might not be too bad but there is a lot of room for things to go wrong.

[HelmutVII]

Looking at the timeline in a little detail this afternoon it looks like we are about six weeks behind the original schedule. The work being done now was originally scheduled for the second week in September. In the original timeline the facility was scheduled to be turned over on the 14th of February. So do the math and that would mean if the original timeline is still the target we are looking at getting into the facility the first week of April.

Now I don't know if we are still on that timeline or not and I do think there are things that could be done without costing additional money that could get us in a little quicker but we are probably talking a couple of weeks at best. The season kicks off on February 17th this year and based on last years schedule we would be looking for an alternative location for 13 games to get us until the 1st of April or 7 games if we were in mid March.

Schedule has 10 days weather contingency. We need this dry weather to hold out. Especially up to the point that the project is fully out of the ground. IF weather holds and they squeeze the timeline slightly this thing might not be too bad but there is a lot of room for things to go wrong.

I was going to do that tonight. I wanted to get to a hard point on the time line and Steel erection was that point. In my previous post in this thread (no 218 on page 11) I had April 3. So it looks like a tight, but doable schedule. I would suspect that if and when they announce a date for occupancy they may add maybe a week to ten days. That way they can say they beat the schedule. Again, I say this with the caveat that we don't know if they re using the same time schedule that was published on the baord back in June. We shall see.

[HelmutVII]

Eric. Crozier will be on at 7:30.

[HelmutVII]

My bad will be on at 8:00. You can see the first. Bit of steel in the job cam.