Baseball fans consider Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, one of the ultimate stops on their bucket list of stadiums to visit. In the design and construction world, as the venerable ballpark takes on a massive renovation, Wrigley also could be considered “the ultimate retrofit” project.
5-20-16: How do you bring a 100-year-old baseball cathedral into the future without changing anything? That’s been the challenge facing the construction crew, integrators and manufacturers leading the 1060 Project at Wrigley Field, home of the 1908 World Series champion Chicago Cubs.
May 19, 2016: Sixty feet, six inches. For most, that figure is nothing more than an arbitrary distance. But on a baseball field, it means everything.