A jam-packed Citi Field – the new home of the New York Mets – is a heavy place. After all, that adds up to 45,000 baseball fans cheering atop more than 12,000 tons of structural steel, along with the 1-million-plus bricks enclosing the 1.4-million-sq-ft ballpark in Queens.
It’s not the kind of facility that typically sits atop soft, fill-based soils. But the $800-million-plus Citi Field is built over meadows with virtually no rock beneath.