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Article: Extra-inning win: lawsuits shut down work on San Diego's new ballpark for more than a year, but the Building Team stayed together to bring the project safely home.(BUILDING TEAM PROJECT AWARDS: PETCO PARK)
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- Building Design & Construction
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Opening day' at San Diego's Petco Park, April 8, 2004, ended with a 4-3, 10-inning victory for the Padres over the visiting San Francisco Giants. The day also represented a hard-earned win for the ballpark's Building Team, whose members, including 67 of the 68 subcontractors, stuck together to finish the project despite a 16-month halt in construction.
Voters approved funding for the $294 million project in 1998, and construction got under way in May 2000. It was 20% complete when work was stopped by more than a dozen lawsuits related to public financing and environmental issues. Not until April 2002 could San Diego Ballpark Builders, a consortium of Clark ...