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Article: Builders Race to Finish St. Louis, Mo., Baseball Stadium.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2004
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Byline: Jack Naudi
Apr. 2--By the start of the 2006 season, the St. Louis Cardinals must have a new stadium -- a sparkling venue in which the team might hold the All-Star Game two years later. It's a race against time, weather, steel prices and even geometry.
To win, the Cardinals picked an all-star team to design and build the as-yet-unnamed stadium. The triumvirate of veterans has worked collectively on dozens of stadiums and arenas.
One name is familiar in St. Louis: architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc., which designed the stadium.
Then there's John Lloyd, hired by the Cardinals to oversee the $387.5 million project. ...