Inside Globe Life Field with HKS' Fred Ortiz

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00:00 Take me through some of the features of this place. Well as I mentioned earlier

00:04 the transparency, the lightness of the roof, the large picture window to the

00:11 north, it's going to allow us to bring in the exterior and vice versa. The interior

00:16 will go out and spill out. So you can imagine as Chuck Morgan is sitting

00:20 behind home plate, which is again one of the first times ever in baseball where

00:24 normally the PA announcer is up high and away, he's definitely right behind home

00:28 plate calling the game and then I'm sure he's gonna have control of, you can

00:33 see the video boards out in the plaza out there where I'm sure

00:37 fireworks, you know when the Naturals playing after someone rocks a home run

00:41 goes yard, there's gonna be some beautiful activity out there. You got two

00:45 large video boards. We also have some really cool premium destinations like

00:50 the Sky Porch up there where the T is, just below the video board. So that

00:55 little roof deck is accessible. You've got garage doors that are spilling out.

00:59 There's bar light experience there with rocking chairs. The other cool thing that

01:04 we did is notice that the brick arches, so that's kind of a nod to the past,

01:08 right? And in lieu of doing it like they did at Globe Light Park where we've

01:14 actually rotated the brick arches 90 degrees, so now you get these large

01:18 picture windows and in between each one of those incredible balcony seating

01:22 that's gonna spill out and get you a completely different experience over

01:27 left field corner. Earlier I mentioned all the suites and all the

01:32 activity happening down below the seating bowl, home plate clubs, dugout

01:36 suites. You've got another suite level up above this main concourse. In redefining

01:43 the cross section, we actually took a lot of the support amenities like toilets

01:47 and concessions and we pushed them out forward, right? So it defines one side of

01:52 the main concourse but at the same time you're gonna get these beautiful well

01:56 daylit atrium spaces that fans would be able to circulate through. Now I will say

02:01 that I think one thing that we did that it would be unique to baseball is the

02:04 upper concourse will also be 360 degrees. So it's not like you have to stop at the

02:10 corner but you'll be able to circulate all the way around and move through the

02:14 arches and take in the plaza to the north. But as I noted as we're moving

02:19 through here that there isn't going to be a backseat in the house. I think you're

02:23 going to be way closer, a way more intimate seating bowl which is going to

02:27 bring fans such a really great and unique experience.