Board of Finance

‘First Pitch Is April 1’: New ‘Coppo Field’ Baseball Facility at Waveny on Time, on Budget

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A widely anticipated project to create a new baseball facility at Coppo Field in Waveny—an area that appears to passersby as massive piles of dirt behind Lapham Community Center—is on time and on budget, officials said last week. 

The approximately $5 million job—$2 million of which is coming from the town, while the nonprofit New Canaan Athletic Foundation is paying the roughly $3 million balance—started in earnest last month following the approval by municipal funding bodies of a $4,977,685 contract with Canton, Mass.-based Atlantic Sports Group or “ASG.”

“It was actually a very, very tight bid and they [ASG] hit the ground running from day one from the time the selectmen approved it,” Public Works Director Tiger Mann told members of the Board of Finance at their regular meeting, held Nov. 12 at Town Hall and via videoconference. 

He continued: “If you’ve been out there, you can see that almost the entire footprint is starting to be leveled off. They’ve put in foundations for both dugouts, home and away. Poured those. The breaks started coming back from the concrete testing and they came back well.

Board of Selectmen

Town Approves Contracts for Preliminary Design To Improve Coppo Field

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Carriage Barn Arts Center. Town officials this week approved three contracts for the design and planning of an upgraded baseball “stadium” at Waveny. The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to approve a $155,900 in contracts for the pre-construction design work at Coppo Field, which is located behind Lapham Community Center. Funding for the initial design is provided by the nonprofit New Canaan Athletic Foundation, although if the design is approved, additional funding will be required for construction, officials said during the selectmen’s regular meeting. The project aims to increase the number of spectator seats around the field, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann.