středa 26. července 2017

USA(Arizona) - Phoenix

Official seal of Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of ArizonaPhoenix is in the southwestern United States, in the south-central portion of Arizona; about halfway between Tucson to the southeast and Flagstaff to the north. By car, the city is approximately 150 miles (242 km) north of the US-Mexico border at Sonoyta and 180 miles (290 km) north of the border at Nogales. The metropolitan area is known as the "Valley of the Sun", due to its location in the Salt River Valley. It lies at a mean elevation of 1,086 feet (331 m), in the northern reaches of the Sonoran Desert.
Chase Field (originally Bank One Ballpark) is a baseball park located in Downtown PhoenixArizona. It is the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. It opened 19 years ago in 1998, in time for the Diamondbacks' first game as an expansion team. Chase Field was the first stadium built in the United States with a retractable roof over a natural-grass playing surface
Broke groundNovember 16, 1995
OpenedMarch 31, 1998
19 years ago
Construction cost$354 million
($520 million in 2016 dollars
ArchitectEllerbe Becket
Wyatt/Rhodes
Castillo Company
Cox James
Project managerHuber, Hunt & Nichols Inc.
Structural engineerHatch Associates Ltd.[8]
Martin/Martin
Services engineerM-E Engineers Inc.
General contractorPerini/McCarthy
Main contractorsSchuff Steel Company

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