Bid Deadline Nearing For Baseball Field Overhaul At Powder Hollow Park

ENFIELD, CT — Bids are being accepted through next Tuesday on a renovation project at Powder Hollow Park that will result in construction of a state-of-the-art baseball facility.

According to a Request For Proposals (RFP) posted on the town website, "Sealed proposals for the project named above will be received at the office of the Director of Finance until 11:00 A.M., Tuesday, October 17, 2023. Thereafter, proposals will be opened in public and read aloud or opened and read aloud pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Governor’s Executive Orders. Responses received after this date and time will not be accepted."

Musco stadium lights have already been purchased by the town. Under terms of the proposal, the winning contractor will install:

• new irrigation and controller
• back flow prevention device
• roughly 200-seat aluminum on grade bleachers
• press box
• fencing
• sodded grass in the infield and outfield
• foul poles
• bullpens with outlets
• dugouts
• scoreboard

Bid alternates are replacement of the concession stand, a new parking lot and elevated bleachers with a ramp instead of bleachers on grade.

The park, set in a bowl in the Hazardville section of Enfield, annually hosted several Enfield High School games for many years. The varsity team began using Powder Hollow as its home field regularly beginning late in the 2018 season, leaving the two fields at the high school for use by the junior varsity and freshman teams.

"This is a project that is long overdue," Mayor Bob Cressotti told Patch. "Our town will now have a state-of-the-art baseball facility that our community and players will be proud of. It will be exciting for the Enfield High School baseball program, our legion programs and our junior development programs."

In 2021, the town council approved $689,000 for upgrades to the park, including the installation of lights. The following spring, the field was dedicated to Bob Bromage, the Enfield baseball coach for nearly four decades.

Bromage told Patch, "I'm overwhelmed at the amount of work they are going to do to provide a first-class facility."