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Wrigley Field Construction Update: February 4

Slow but steady progress is being made.

By Al Yellon
  • View from Waveland and Sheffield Mike Bojanowski
  • Bowl seating and upper deck, left field corner.  Appears whatever major work was being done there is finished for the season Mike Bojanowski
  • Perhaps the best view of the on-field crane, now working in right field Mike Bojanowski
  • Gate K/J area Mike Bojanowski
  • Some new materials outside the groundskeeper’s cottage Mike Bojanowski
  • A peek inside the service doors of the plaza building north frontage Mike Bojanowski
  • Northwest corner of plaza building, construction continuing Mike Bojanowski
  • Large crane at work on the Hotel Zachary site Mike Bojanowski
  • Plaza building from Clark & Waveland Mike Bojanowski
  • One of the more curious survivors of the area, originally a gas station office, now a vehicle rental business.  Apparently it is weathering the current upheavals Mike Bojanowski
  • Another view Mike Bojanowski
  • Windows, plaza building, west frontage, interior work just in view Mike Bojanowski
  • Plaza building, south front, new video board Mike Bojanowski
  • More interior work Mike Bojanowski
  • Clark Street frontage Mike Bojanowski
  • A peek at the Hotel Zachary site, looking northeast Mike Bojanowski
  • The obligatory view.  How much longer will it stay? Mike Bojanowski
  • Hotel Zachary site, from Clark & Addison Mike Bojanowski
  • Hotel Zachary site, from Addison, some renderings on the covers Mike Bojanowski
  • A view loking west from Addison & Sheffield Mike Bojanowski
  • Gate D area Mike Bojanowski
  • Gate D area, Billy surrounded on all sides Mike Bojanowski
  • A look through the right-field gate, shrouding in the area of the new bullpen Mike Bojanowski
  • Another view, left field corner Mike Bojanowski
  • Another view, shrouding in new LF seating Mike Bojanowski
  • Long may it wave Mike Bojanowski
  • Looking west on Addison, from the Red Line platform Mike Bojanowski

BCB’s Mike Bojanowski visited Wrigley Field over the weekend and filed this report:

These photos were taken Saturday afternoon, February 4. I hadn't been to Wrigley for two weeks, but there was little change to the aspects of the park visible from the street. The plaza building now shows signs of interior work. A large crane has been at work within the confines of the playing field for most of the last two weeks, currently it is positioned along the right field line. It's only barely visible from the street.

Work on the two major hotels continues, Hotel Zachary in particular is showing vertical progress.

One thing to note in particular is photo 6, which shows a “peek” into one of the vehicle doors on the north side of the plaza building. It’s clearly a loading dock and not a parking entrance.

The Cubs will open at Wrigley Field against the Dodgers nine weeks from today, April 10. They still have work to do inside, as you can see from this view:

With generally mild weather and almost no snow this winter, they’ve been able to work at a pretty good pace even with work not beginning until November (for the best reason, of course).

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