Bleacher Repair Project? Photo taken from CubsCam this morning shows an area of the right center...

Bleacher Repair Project? Photo taken from CubsCam this morning shows an area of the right center field bleachers covered with some temporary framework and plastic sheeting. Anyone know what is being done?

9 months ago wrigley1 11 comments 1 recs |

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Well, if Cuban had bought the Cubs, I'd say this is the start of a new owner's box...

But after checking out the view from the other camera, it appears to be as you suggest – a bleacher repair project.

If this link works, you can see some broken benches scattered around.
http://tinyurl.com/d8ghoa

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Jan 25, 2009 11:47 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Broken?

Just looks like they’ve been removed and placed next to where the repair is being done.

My guess is that they’re replacing concrete. I believe that the tenting w/ some forced air heating is needed to allow concrete to cure properly, something that the extreme cold would prevent.

by dmlichte on Jan 25, 2009 12:06 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

that makes more sense

yea, I suppose if the benches were broken, they would have been tossed out upon removal instead of just set aside.

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Jan 25, 2009 1:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Just making room...

For a Jumbotron!

Someday we'll go all the way...

by CubsBullsBears on Jan 26, 2009 9:39 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Noooo!

Then I’d have to get another new sig!

"[I]f we get a Jumbotron, I can't pull the instant replay thing on all the rookies. Every time there's a good play, we're like, 'Oh, look at the replay,' and you get the rookies to look at the scoreboard." - Ryan Dempster, 2 January 2009

by CaughtInTheVines on Jan 26, 2009 10:11 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Something leftover...

from the Winter Classic?

"It's hard to win 97 games, it's hard to win the division. Our attitude is if you get in every year, you get in most of the time, sooner or later you are going to knock that door down." -- Jim Hendry

by EJThunder on Jan 26, 2009 11:51 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

No ....

images from the Winter Classic clearly show fans sitting in the seats now under cover. The concrete repair seems the most likely possibility suggested.

If It Takes Forever ....

by wrigley1 on Jan 26, 2009 2:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I love a good mystery

Is this the area near the stairs? Maybe they are widening the stairs, it always struck me as a bottleneck.

Out with the Old and in with the Nucleus The Tortured Fan Base welcomes our new owner.

by Andre Fonseca on Jan 27, 2009 9:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Yep ...

the cover completely encloses the stairs between sections 312 and 313. Widening the stairs , esp. at the top of the aisle, would be a good idea.

If It Takes Forever ....

by wrigley1 on Jan 27, 2009 10:10 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Looks like

they are doing the same thing to some lower box seats on the third base side behind home plate as well.

by AndHart120 on Jan 27, 2009 11:50 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

They are working on the bleacher entrance as well

I heard a jack hammer from inside our apartment and couldn’t see anything I walked by the bleacher entrance and they were doing something to the concrete next to the elevator. Idk why considering it isn’t that old. Probably just on going maintenance to Wrigley in tip top shape.

Someday we'll go all the way.

by Cubbinstrongsince86 on Jan 27, 2009 4:28 PM CST reply actions 0 recs