Ian sent that photo of crews working at West Seattle Stadium, also noting that construction fencing has gone up. We asked Seattle Parks what’s being built. Answer: ADA improvements – from the project website:

This project will upgrade the West Seattle Stadium to current accessibility standards, including improvement to accessible routes, parking stalls, providing wheelchair seating and a platform lift to the south concrete grandstands, restroom and interior improvements and Site Work. Site Work includes new concrete ramps, plazas, asphalt parking stalls, landscaping and irrigation improvements, and a new detention vault. This project also includes 2 Additives that we will be doing as well. Additive 1 covers Epoxy Flooring over sealed concrete in the restrooms. Additive 2 includes construction of an additional ramp from the parking area to the concrete bleacher structure.

During construction, the contractor will need to close a portion of the track near the Grandstands. Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Contractor hired for the project will work to minimize the impact on the track & field.

The project page says the work could last up to a year. When the project went out to bid earlier this year, it was projected to cost almost $3 million. The contractor is Optimus, which is also leading the Hiawatha Community Center project.