In May of 2016, when Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers ownership group announced their plans to construct a new Arlington home for their ballclub, just 17 miles to the west, the duct fabrication team of Spiral Pipe of Texas, Inc. (SPOT) got excited.
The Texas Rangers had made a bold decision to abandon a stately current ballpark built in 1994 in order to solve two big problems that had plagued the organization since the team arrived in North Texas in 1972. The Texas summer was hot, which affected fan turnout and the recruitment of players. Owners Ray Davis and Bob Simpson, along with the supportive City of Arlington, embarked on building a retractable roof stadium that would include air conditioning too – solving both problems once and for all.