GreenFields USA‘s MX 3-STAR turf system will be installed at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, AMB Sports & Entertainment and GreenFields USA recently announced in a news release. Set to open in 2017, Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be a multi-purpose venue and home to the Atlanta Falcons and the city’s new Major League Soccer team, Atlanta United. “Our goal is for every feature... read more
Creativity allows the field at StubHub Center, home of Major League Soccer's LA Galaxy, to thrive in the midst of a 25-percent water reduction mandate for the state of California. read more
Dan Farnes, director of fields and grounds at Rio Tinto Stadium, first landed his job by answering to a Craigslist ad. See how Farnes and his crew are managing the field, which has seen twice the amount of traffic this year. read more
Nonprofit organization Life Remodeled broke ground on construction of a new football field for Detroit’s Cody High School on July 11. The Detroit Lions will donate goal posts as part of a plan by Life Remodeled to renovate the school and its surrounding neighborhood this summer. The Cody Comets’ former field sat on the same location as the new field until 2006 when vandalism and lack... read more
San Diego-based Groundskeeper Tech (GT) released a new mapping software, SprinklerMaps. Working as head groundskeeper at the University of California, GT Founder Mike D’Ascanio grew frustrated with printed-paper landscape maps, which were routinely outdated, inaccurate or flat-out inaccessible, and began developing SprinklerMaps. As an alternative to paper landscape maps, SprinklerMaps gives users the ability to plot their irrigation and utility systems with... read more
