Launched in 2014, the extensive $1 billion renovation of 105-year-old Wrigley Field is nearly complete. Void in ONT. Be that as it may, construction went on behind a temporary fence during the summer, and the finished product was unveiled on September 4, in time for the last month of the season. ", "I just wanted to commend you for the very safe and talented group of employees you have onsite here at Midway. Located at 425 East 42nd Place, the Gilbert W. Lindsay Community Center and park, operated by the city's Department of Recreation and Parks, now stands on the ballpark's site. Brandenburg was accepted into the VPP on February 4, 2008 as a Star Mobile Workforce participant and proudly flies the OSHA VPP banner over our projects and we are honored to be the only demolition contractor in America to hold the VPP Star for Mobile Workforce. Feds probe whether Cubs' $1 billion Wrigley Field renovation meets Plans to redevelop. The new ballpark, known as Weeghman Park, was a modern steel and concrete baseball plant (in the industrial lexicon of the day). Wrigley Field will now hold up to 41,198 people after adding the seats. Spoke with Marie Portis, District 1, who wanted to pass on they were very pleased with the performance of your staff. The house at 1053 W. Waveland Avenue was built during a major renovation of what was then called . Green seriously considered shuttering Wrigley and playing at Comiskey Park as tenants of the White Sox for a year, in hopes that the neighborhood would feel the loss of revenue and back down. Because of the constricted size of much of the outfield near the corners, bleachers were limited to a small jury box in right-center field. Their first two post-season night games were the first two games of the NLCS, on October 4 and 5. But the following season, new commissioner Peter Ueberroth announced that because Wrigley Field had no lights, the Cubs would have to play all future postseason games at another ballpark, most likely the White Sox' Comiskey Park, Busch Stadium in St. Louis, or County Stadium in Milwaukee. Demolition started on the bleachers at Wrigley Field today. Wrigley Field renovations release plague of rats: residents Left field was not much better, partly because several old seminary buildings stood between the wooden left field fence and Waveland Avenue. 171 653 ( Tovbbi rszletek) Frfi lakossg. But all was not lost for Weeghman, however. . Visit Cubs.com/Neighbors for more information.