Construction has started on a $2.5 million project at Westchester Community College that focuses on rebuilding and expanding the SUNY school”™s athletic fields and surrounding areas.
Long Island-based BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers is handling the design and construction, to be done at the West Fields, Barrett Field and other buildings and surrounding roadways.
Robert Cirillo, the college”™s superintendent of physical plant, said the new fields would improve WCC”™s athletic program, which includes the Region XV”™s Division I men”™s basketball team.
“The upgraded facilities will also benefit Westchester County”™s public school students and the entire local community by providing access to high quality recreational and sports facilities,” Cirillo said.
The West Fields include a 3.7-acre baseball field and 3-acre softball and soccer field.
The new baseball field will be brought up to NCAA standards, with improvements including a new backstop, dugouts and scoreboard as well as natural turf repairs and new drainage systems.
A 1,000-square foot building will house a concession stand, restrooms and a second-story press box.
The 3.4-acre Barrett Field will be regraded, then fit with a new drainage system, scoreboard and bleachers.
Other work will be new emergency vehicle access roads and pedestrian walkways.
In addition to BBS, the project team includes the office of Thomas Riley, P.E., structural engineer for the multi-purpose building and general contractor Avanti Building Construction, according to a BBS press release.
WCC, where 24,000 full- and part-time students are enrolled, is located on a 218-acre campus in Valhalla, but has extension sites in Peekskill, Ossining, White Plains, Yonkers and Mount Vernon.
Updated: An earlier version of this article said WCC had 12,000 full- and part-time students. There are approximately 12,000 college credit students. With continuing education students, the total student population at WCC is 24,000.
