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Rangers Spring Training Housing Facility Rounds First Base By Jennifer Rupp
on Feb. 19 and by the Surprise City Council on March 5. The facility will consist of a two-story common area building which will be attached to a three-story residential building. The common area measures 12,753 sq. ft. and includes a lobby/reception, dining area, recreation room and outdoor patio space on the first floor. The second floor of the common area will house an auditorium, classrooms, and fitness area. The residential building measures 53,527 sq. ft. and will include 36 units that can house up to 180 individuals at one time. This building also will feature lounge areas and a laundry room among other amenities. The new facility is being designed by FM Group of Scottsdale, Ariz. with GCON of Phoenix serving as the general contractor. GCON has a number of local subcontractors on the project. At peak construction, 150
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Construction is under way on the Texas Rangers new baseball housing and meeting facility adjacent to the team’s complex in Surprise, Ariz. “The multi-story, 68,280 sq.-ft. facility will include housing for as many as 180 Texas Rangers organizational players and staff as well as classroom and meeting space. It will be utilized throughout the year for spring training, extended spring, Arizona rookie league, instructional league and other baseball programs.” The housing facility is being built on 3.8 acres at the northeast quadrant of North Bullard Avenue and West Greenway Road, directly across from the Rangers’ baseball complex and Surprise Stadium. The project was approved by unanimous vote of the city of Surprise Zoning and Planning Committee
The west stair shaft wall nears completion.
Crews Set Final Girder for Loop 202 SMF After construction on 40 bridges over more than two years, workers have placed the final girder for the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, the Arizona Department of Transportation’s single largest-ever freeway construction project. Crews with Connect 202 Partners, the freeway developer, lowered the 91-ft., 77,000-lb. girder into place recently at the interchange under construction at Desert Foothills Parkway in Ahwatukee. This work will be followed by pouring the concrete deck for the overpass.
More than 1,000 girders, all of them manufactured locally, have been installed for the 22-mi. freeway, which will connect with Interstate 10 at the Loop 202 Santan Freeway in Chandler and 59th Avenue in west Phoenix. see ADOT page 6
Crews with Connect 202 Partners, the freeway developer, lowered the 91-ft., 77,000-lb. girder into place recently at the interchange under construction at Desert Foothills Parkway in Ahwatukee.
see RANGERS page 7