The synthetic turf installation at City Green next to Sandy Springs City Hall continued this week with the anticipated completion date in mid-March.
The Sandy Springs City Council approved a $406,448 contract in December 2023 with Advanced Sports Group to buy and install approximately 21,000 linear square feet of turf. The turf replaces the Bermuda grass that had originally been planted at City Green.
“We have a high annual cost of replacing Bermuda because Bermuda goes dormant in the wintertime and we put a lot of traffic on the City Green in the wintertime,” Dave Wells, director of Facilities/Capital Construction and Building Operations, said in a recent video posted on the city’s social media. “We end up in the spring, we’re replacing a lot of pieces of that.”
Installation of the turf also will enable the addition of conduit pathways for event cable management, Wells said in his presentation to the city council in December.
He said the installation should be completed in time for the Northside Saint Patrick’s Festival on March 23.
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