Photos: Growing Rillito Park Soccer
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Construction continues at Rillito ParkΒ on new soccer fields due to open this fall.
Rene and Juliam Hernandez, l-r, with West Coast Turf, install rolls of sod, each 100 foot x 43 inches wide, across one of the new soccer fields at the Rillito Park Soccer fields under construction at 4502 North 1st Avenue in Tucson, AZ. Photo taken Thursday, November 1, 2012. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Jamie Guzman, front, and Alan Sanchez, with West Coast Turf, adjust the fit of each roll of sod as it is installed across one of the new soccer fields at the Rillito Park Soccer fields under construction at 4502 North 1st Avenue in Tucson, AZ. Photo taken Thursday, November 1, 2012. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Rene and Juliam Hernandez, l-r, with West Coast Turf, install rolls of sod, each 100 foot x 43 inches wide, across one of the new soccer fields at the Rillito Park Soccer fields under construction at 4502 North 1st Avenue in Tucson, AZ. Photo taken Thursday, November 1, 2012. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Jamie Guzman, front, and Alan Sanchez, with West Coast Turf, adjust the fit of each roll of sod as it is installed across one of the new soccer fields at the Rillito Park Soccer fields under construction at 4502 North 1st Avenue in Tucson, AZ. Photo taken Thursday, November 1, 2012. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Reginald Antone, with Santa Rita Landscaping, delivers pipe for the irrigation system.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
A maze of underground pipe delivers water to all the property including soccer fields and park plants and landscaping.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Eduardo Villalobos, with Santa Rita Landscaping, works around a valve for the irrigation system on one of the new soccer fields
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Robert Rogers hand rakes stones from the graded surface of a soccer field. The stones are gathered into small piles then collected and removed to give as smooth a surface as possible for sod.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
A crew with Escalante Concrete installs a form for the new concrete entires into the parking lots.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
A crew with Escalante Concrete smooths the concrete on a new sidewalk installation.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
A landscaper rolls out the freshly laid sod in the wash that runs between the north and south fields.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
A landscaper examines the sprinkler heads watering the wash that runs between the north and south fields.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
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