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Wrigley Field Construction Update: July 21

While we wait for Game 2 of today's doubleheader, have a look at what happened around Wrigley on Tuesday.

By Al Yellon
  • 5:27 p.m. Some light bulbs are out again on the marquee display - David Sameshima
  • 5:27 p.m. Addison still reduced to one lane in each direction, at Sheffield - David Sameshima
  • 5:29 p.m. Street work still in progress on Sheffield, at Addison. View looking east on Addison - David Sameshima
  • 5:30 p.m. View looking north on Sheffield, from Addison - David Sameshima
  • 5:30 p.m. View looking west on Addison, from Sheffield - David Sameshima
  • 5:31 p.m. Sheffield, just outside the main grandstand - David Sameshima
  • 5:32 p.m. Another view of Sheffield just outside the main grandstand - David Sameshima
  • 5:33 p.m. Concrete being poured on Sheffield just outside of the main grandstand - David Sameshima
  • 5:34 p.m. Outside of Gate Q on Sheffield - David Sameshima
  • 5:34 p.m. The new sidewalk on Sheffield, outside of the bleachers - David Sameshima
  • 5:35 p.m. Concrete being poured on Sheffield, just outside of the main grandstand - David Sameshima
  • 5:35 p.m. Another view of concrete being poured on Sheffield, just outside of the main grandstand - David Sameshima
  • 5:36 p.m. View looking north on Sheffield - David Sameshima
  • 5:37 p.m. View looking north on Sheffield, outside of Wrigley - David Sameshima
  • 5:38 p.m. The finished sidewalk, outside of the main bleacher gate, at Sheffield and Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 5:39 p.m. Equipment on Waveland just west of Sheffield - David Sameshima
  • 5:40 p.m. Dirt pile on Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 5:45 p.m. View looking west on Waveland. Note the new street "bump out", at the southeast corner of the Waveland/Sheffield intersection - David Sameshima
  • 5:48 p.m. The main bleacher gate - David Sameshima
  • 5:48 p.m. The back of the scoreboard - David Sameshima
  • 5:54 p.m. Work on smoothing out the sidewalk, outside of the main bleacher gate - David Sameshima
  • 6:08 p.m. Concrete trucks heading toward, and leaving, the construction site. View looking north on Sheffield, at Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 6:40 p.m. Another concrete truck entering the work site, at Sheffield and Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 6:41 p.m. Concrete trucks at Sheffield & Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 7:17 p.m. View of trench filled in, along Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 7:17 p.m. Another view of the filled in trench, along Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 7:17 p.m. Work fence across Waveland. Dirt pile is beyond this fence - David Sameshima
  • 7:18 p.m. View along Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 7:20 p.m. Stacks of pipes on Waveland - David Sameshima
  • 7:20 p.m. Equipment parked on Waveland outside the left-field corner - David Sameshima
  • 7:23 p.m. Triangle lot - David Sameshima
  • 7:29 p.m. View looking north on Sheffield from Addison - David Sameshima

When BCB's David Sameshima visited Wrigley Field Tuesday afternoon, he found preparations getting very close to being ready to reopen Sheffield before the homestand begins Friday:

I arrived late in the day, but still saw a lot of activity taking place on Sheffield Avenue. It appears that they are planning to reopen Sheffield this Friday, in time for the Cubs next home game. There was a steady stream of concrete trucks making deliveries, while I was there. I stayed around until 7:30 p.m., and that's when the work crews started leaving.The sidewalks have been finished along Sheffield. I heard that this sidewalk is only temporary. The concrete will later be replaced with bricks, like the previous sidewalk.In the group of photos that were posted on Sunday, you saw that they installed a street "bump out" on Sheffield. This was at the northwest corner of the intersection. In today's photos, you will see that they have installed another of these street "bump outs" on Waveland Avenue at the southeast corner. These do reduce the size of the turning radius at this intersection. This may make it more difficult for coach buses, and beer delivery trucks, to make turns here. You often see those long beer trucks in the area, to service the numerous bars in the area, in addition to delivering to Wrigley Field.There was a corporate event taking place inside the ballpark. They were displaying numerous hardware and paint stores, on the marquee in front of the ballpark. Some of the light bulbs on the electronic display were not working, so the company names were not being properly displayed. I saw them recently working on this display, a few weeks ago. There must be a problem maintaining this display board. Hopefully, this will be addressed in the upcoming renovation phases.

David is visiting Wrigley again today so we'll have more photos here tomorrow.

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