Fallon Sports Park Construction Approved!
The Dublin City Council unanimously voted to award the roughly $10M Fallon Sports Park Phase I project to Robert A. Bothman, Incorporated. Phase I will include:
- 2 softball fields
- 2 little league baseball fields
- 2 soccer fields (with artificial turf)
- A BMX track
- 4 tennis courts
- 4 basketball courts
In addition to these main features, the Council also approved the construction of a shade structure at the soccer fields, a batting cage at the little league fields, pedestrian lighting at the Fallon Road / Gleason Drive entryway, and a walkway bridge over the stream corridor from the park to Lockhart Street.
In light of the current shortage of development impact fees to fund Phase I, the Council also authorized a loan from Dublin’s General Fund if needed and deferred the design of the Emerald Glen Park Recreation and Aquatic Center for at least one year. The Council was able to take advantage of the favorable construction bid environment and saved residents over $3M by approving the Fallon Sports Park Phase I construction Tuesday night.
9:29 AM on March 19th, 2009
Looking at the picture, I see 4 soccer fields, 4 Softball fields. How will the Phase 1 look like? Is there any document showing how it will grow by phase similar to what we have for Emerald Park ?
7:43 PM on March 19th, 2009
Hi Chuck – I’ll see if I can get a hold of a clean multi-phase conceptual drawing of Fallon Sports Park. In the mean time, there’s a real rough looking version in the recent Staff report on page 10 of 14:
http://citydocs.ci.dublin.ca.us/weblink7/DocView.aspx?id=242693
Thx, John Z.
10:41 PM on March 19th, 2009
Thanks John. I walked by the future site today, its so huge. Can’t wait to see this park bring some life in the empty space by Fallon.
11:20 AM on March 20th, 2009
Is there any information on the estimated time for completion, atleast for phase 1?
8:20 PM on March 20th, 2009
Hi Anonymous on March 20, 2009 11:20 AM – according to page 7 of the Staff report, Fallon Sports Park is expected to be completed by the summer/fall of 2010.
http://citydocs.ci.dublin.ca.us/weblink7/DocView.aspx?id=242693
Thx, John Z.
6:41 PM on March 22nd, 2009
Does anyone know if we are getting a track at this sports park? If not, anything new on whether we might be getting an indoor track? There was a discussion about this on one of the other posts, but I haven’t heard anything else on it.
Thanks!!
8:14 PM on March 22nd, 2009
Hi Kat – the concept of having a track at the Fallon Sports Park hasn’t been discussed. However, there was strong demand from residents at the Emerald Glen Recreation and Aquatic Center workshop to have an indoor track (on the second level of the building with the indoor pool).
Thx, John Z.
9:21 PM on March 22nd, 2009
NICE!
Kasie H. and the other fools deferred the design of the Emerald Glen Aquatic Center AGAIN! Now it looks like the project will be at least 5 years after it was promised. If this were planned to be in the west…you can rest assured it would be done. OOPS…there goes that dreaded free speech again.
9:33 PM on March 23rd, 2009
To Anonymous March 22, 2009 9:21 PM
Of course you have free speech and please continue to use it. Lets see, you called the City Council fools for saving Fallon Park (and having to borrow money to do it) and making a choice over Emerald Glen. Fallon Park will serve a larger population, faster. So I’m okay with the decision. The other part is: You do know there are severe budgets cuts for the City, right? BAD Economy? Loss of JOBS? State near bankruptcy? That old thing?
I applaud the City for saving Fallon Park. I really didn’t think they would and frankly I do question a little the wisedom of borrowing more money right now. But at least they did something construction instead of whining like a little baby.
11:54 PM on June 9th, 2009
1. If we do not have enough money to build it, then don't build it. Isn't that how we get into this loan trouble today in whole country?
2. Why do we want to spreading money around verious parks? All parks are build in phase 1 and never complete. We should complete Emerald park first before moving on to next park.
3. What's the point of building the smae type of fields and courts again and again? This is a waste of money.
4. Cheap does not mean you need it. Buying things you alread have is wasting money, land, and energy.
5. We end up have more courts that no one use and we still do not have an in-door track and a pool that at the same level as Pleasanton and San Ramon.