Spring is in the air for two firms selected to construct a new spring training and western headquarters facility for the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team in Mesa, Ariz. Populous, Kansas City, Mo., beat out nine competing firms to win the design contract, while Hunt Construction Group, Scottsdale, Ariz., bested eight others for the general contractor job.
The project will be built as a construction manager-at-risk project. “It’s a complex project, and we want a contractor sitting at the table with us during design, giving us ideas on cost and how to keep the project under budget and on schedule,” says Beth Huning, city engineer.