If you've driven past Sealth High School on Thistle Street SW in the last week or so you may have noticed some work being done to refurbish the track and field at the Southwest Athletic Complex. According to Seattle Public School's Tom Redman, "The Southwest Athletic Complex track and field replacement project includes the resurfacing of the stadium track, new stadium synthetic turf field with cork infill, resurfacing of the baseball and softball infields, conversion of the overflow baseball infield to synthetic turf with cork infill, a new shotput cage, upgrade lights to the scoreboard, new high jump mats, elevator upgrades and new fence in security problem areas. "

So far the work looks like this:

• Existing track surface demolition is complete.
• New track base layer is complete
• Top coat installation (paint) will be completed as early as tomorrow, weather permitting.
• Line painting is scheduled for the week of June 11th and the track will be complete on June 15th (minimal odor)
• Field turf replacement is scheduled to commence on June 25th. 
• Baseball infield scheduled to start June 25th, complete July 20th
• Softball infield scheduled to start June 28th , complete July 31st
• Utility Field scheduled to start August 1st, complete September 27th  
• Project substantial completion scheduled for October 3rd