Coors Field is located in lower downtown Denver in the old warehouse district north of the Denver Union Terminal between the 20th and 23rd Street viaducts. The stadium seats 50,800 fans and parking is provided for approximately 6,000 vehicles on the 40 acre site. The playing field is approximately 20 feet below street level. A pumping system had to be provided for handling local storm drainage, and water used by stand cleaning crews. The storm drainage facilities for the 40-acre parking site includes water quality ponds and a system of storm sewers, inlets, and water storage vaults.

J.F. Sato and Associates was the civil engineering consultant to HOK, Inc., the architect for the project. The firm furnished civil engineering, drainage, and surveying services for all phases of this project. Other services included investigating design criteria for utilities and preparation of conceptual layout of parking and interior roadways. JFSA was also responsible for the roadway design of 12 city blocks (approximately 1 mile) in the area surrounding the new stadium site. Initial work for this project consisted of the collection and reduction of field information. JFSA's in-house survey department provided current topographic information in three-dimensional, digital format for automatic reduction to base maps.

Reference: Denver Metro Major League Baseball Stadium District
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