The Triunfo YMCA baseball fields are the job CPF points at when a client asks whether a residential mason can handle something larger. It is a community facility, used constantly, built to be walked on by hundreds of people a week — and the masonry has to survive that without a maintenance budget behind it.
CPF built it with the YMCA and Hellas Construction, who build state-of-the-art sports facilities nationally. The brief was a nearly identical clone of Wrigley Field, and that is what drove the detailing: the red brick topped with concrete, and the alternating pattern in the brickwork that gives the park its classic feel, peppered through the backstop and carried on into the dugouts.
CPF's scope was the masonry and the concrete — brick backstop walls, dugouts, block retaining structures around the outfield, the restroom building, and the flatwork of walkways, steps and pads that ties the facility together and makes it accessible.
What the job involved
- Brick backstop walls — the structure carrying the chain-link behind home plate, taking impact for the life of the field.
- Dugouts — poured footings, brick base courses, and perforated screens over bench seating.
- Block outfield walls — curved segmental retaining walls following the boundary grade.
- Concrete flatwork — spectator walkways, steps and equipment pads.
- Restroom building — a roofed structure in split-face block over a brick wainscot, not a screen wall: footings, bearing walls and openings.
Why it matters for a residential client
Institutional work is awarded on insurance, licensing and references as much as on the masonry itself. A community organization cannot have a field out of use into the season, which is the same reason a homeowner cannot have a driveway open for a month. Each project is owner supervised — the person accountable for the schedule is the person on site.
