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Gilbane Building Co. and the New York Mets are one step closer to coming home to a new training facility in Florida.
The contractor, along with Mets officials, celebrated the overcoming the franchise’s player development complex at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, Fla., according to a July 8 announcement. The The cost of the project is 60 million dollarsaccording to MLB.com, and is being paid by Mets owner Steve Cohen.
The project team, consisting of Gilbane and designer HKS, placed the final structural steel beam in place to mark the completion of the structural framework of the 55,000-square-foot complex, according to the announcement. the project started in Februaryaccording to a release from MLB.com.
Once completed, the facility will contain a 7,000-square-foot weight room with a cardio mezzanine; a clubhouse of 5,000 square meters with 180 lockers; areas of hydrotherapy and sports medicine; dining room and multipurpose spaces; covered batting cages and a synthetic turf field.
Gilbane used drone technology on the project to monitor progress and help with coordination, Ryan Snow, project executive for Gilbane Building Co., told Construction Dive via email.
Construction is on schedule to open in time for spring training in 2027, according to the news release.
Baseball builds are located in Gilbane’s wheelhouse. In 2024, the Providence, Rhode Island-based company won a contract for a minor league baseball stadium in Richmond, Virginia that cost $110 million to build, local media reported. The Richmond Flying Squirrels, an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, celebrated the park’s opening in the spring, according to a news release from the city of Richmond.
But perhaps its flagship sports complex project is the new one $2.1 billion stadium for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Along with JV partner Turner Construction, Gilbane handed over the keys to the 1.6 billion square foot stadium to the owners in June.
