Fields of dreams taking shape
Contractors continue excavations and drainage work as two new artificial playing fields take shape at Logan Park, in Dunedin, yesterday.
Dunedin City Council parks and recreation group manager Robert West said contractors were on budget and on time, or even slightly ahead, as they worked to complete the
$3.9 million project by March.
That had been helped by favourable weather conditions and a lack of surprises, like buried asbestos, during excavations, he said.
The joint project by the Dunedin
City Council and Football South would result in two allweather multipurpose fields, including an artificial cricket wicket, at Logan Park.
Soil excavated to make room for the artificial playing surfaces would be used to create a new grass embankment around a reconfigured cricket oval.
Once built, the fields would be owned and managed by the council, which also planned to add pathways, new markings and lighting, plantings, seating and a firstaid building.