Demolition Starts on Candlestick Park

As The Conco Companies played a large role in the construction of the new San Francisco 49ers Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, we have remained interested in what will happen to the old stadium.  After several years of discussion, the demolition on Candlestick Park began on February 4, 2015.  Due to a concern with local dust pollution, the park is being torn down rather than imploded and the process is expected to take several months.   

The last scheduled event at Candlestick was a concert on August 14, 2014 by Paul McCartney, and is where the Beatles gave their final last concert 48 years earlier almost to the day.  The Park was originally built for San Francisco’s baseball team the Giants and was the home field to the 49ers from 1971 to 2013. 

The demolition process for Candlestick is being done with precision piece by piece.  Larry Thomas of Silverado Contractors, the company hired to do the demolition said, “It’s a little trickier than wrecking a building.”  He explained that wreckers do not have a lot of experience wrecking stadiums as compared to buildings.  To keep the dust and debris from polluting the surround neighborhood, they are using mechanical wreckers rather than wrecking balls or dynamite.  The well-used orange plastic stadium seats (some were sold to fans for $649 a pair) will be ground up and recycled.   

Candlestick Park was built in 1960 for a cost of $32 million and the new Levi 49ers Stadium that opened in fall 2014 cost $1.2 billion.  Even though the total seating capacity for the new stadium (68,500 Levi – Candlestick Park 69,900) is less, Levi Park has 9,000 premium club seats and 165 luxury suites.   According to the San Francisco 49ers website, a new shopping, housing and entertainment development is scheduled to be constructed in place of the old stadium.

Source:

sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Candlestick-Park-disappearing-piece-by-piece-6062980.php

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