Concord committee outlines $19.2M plan to rebuild Memorial Field, schedules October presentation

The City and Community Relations Committee on Aug. 18 discussed a multi‑phase plan to rebuild Memorial Field in Concord, presenting a phase‑one cost estimate of $19,176,442 and scheduling a public presentation by Dave Field in October. The committee described plans to reconfigure fields and parking, fix longstanding drainage failures and add two stadiums — a 2,000‑seat turf stadium and a separate track stadium with roughly 750 seats — while keeping the site available for both school and city use.

Committee members said the work aims to address persistent drainage and scheduling problems that leave fields unusable after rain and limit simultaneous events. The plan calls for raising parts of the site to improve drainage, installing two turf fields to expand the season and scheduling capacity, and reconfiguring softball and baseball areas. Phase one, as described to the committee, would include the track, a multipurpose turf field, two softball fields, drainage work and expanded parking.

Details discussed included locating the larger stadium away…