Project EverGreen, STMA team up for Arizona park renovation

Project EverGreen — the nonprofit that revitalizes community recreational spaces — will be taking on a renovation project at Lindo Park in South Phoenix, Ariz., to give the 22-acre park a ballpark.

Project EverGreen along with partner the Sports Turf Managers Association, will spend three days prepping the field for the ballpark renovation.

Volunteers including sports field managers, lawn care professionals, landscape contractors, groundskeepers and neighborhood youth will assist with the transformation. The project will include:

• Surveying the field to determine existing and proposed elevations for the playing surface;
• Laying out new grass edges along 1st and 3rd base lines;
• Re-inspecting and adjusting the irrigation system to insure proper coverage in the outfield;
• Fertilizing and silting seed for the outfield turf – nearly 60,000-square-feet;
• Laying out and rebuilding the pitcher’s mound and installing a new pitching rubber;
• Laying out and rebuilding the batter’s boxes/catcher’s box and installing a new home plate;
• Grading the infield surface to cut high areas and fill low areas; and
• Installing sod to repair areas of damaged turf.