The Arcadia Ballpark is designed as one of the top premier softball complexes in the Bay Area. In a tight site surrounded by residential homes and apartments, the site includes two championship fields with terraced chairback seating, full bullpens and covered dugouts. The site also includes two smaller fields with tall outfield fencing ranging from 8 – 14 feet tall creating a feel similar to that of the ‘Green Monster’ at Fenway Park. Aside from the fields, the site offers amenities such as the unique, central restroom/concessions building, thematic architectural entry signage, sports field lighting, picnic areas, thematic children’s play areas, and a miniature synthetic turf ball field. This site sets itself apart from other softball complexes, while creating an image all its own.
This site posed two major challenges related to redirecting and treating all site drainage and how to balance cut and fill. The site is extremely flat, which has proved to be a challenge when running the cut and fill analysis to make the raised central plaza. With some careful design of slightly depressed C3 planting areas that treat all paved runoff, and a less than 3″ drop of all ball fields, we were able to accomplish creating an 18″ raised spectator plaza while still balancing the cut and fill.
