Sportworks Design provided MSA Design with surveying, civil engineering, and landscape architectural services for the Purcell Marian High School Stadium project. Purcell Marian, the “Castle on Hackberry Street”, has been an institution located in East Walnut Hills for ninety-three years and has never had a field of their own to host a home game for any sport. Over the years, the school acquired the properties within their city block until they had enough land to build a home stadium.

The stadium field is surrounded by retaining walls on three and a half sides of the field because of the existing grades. The new bleachers and pressbox sit over 8 feet above the field. Behind the bleachers and pressbox is another retaining wall to help with the grade change from the facility down to the existing street level. A new ticket booth and restroom building was built providing a new prominent entry to the athletic facility.

The project had multiple hurdles that the design team encountered from replacing 400 feet of 17-foot-deep sanitary sewer, multiple retaining walls, unsuitable soils, and double-digit zoning variances.