New price tag on MFHS baseball facility; construction to begin April 1
A map of Marble Falls High School with plans for the new baseball field, dugouts, clubhouse, and detention pond. MFISD photo
A guaranteed maximum price of $7.15 million was approved for the new Marble Falls High School baseball facility, on Monday, March 23. Ground is expected to be broken by April 1 and the facility could be finished by December of this year.
The baseball facility’s construction will be paid for using a portion of MFISD’s $172.2 million bond package approved by voters in May 2025. The project will include a new baseball field, dugouts, clubhouse, detention pond, and excavation.
In addition to the guaranteed maximum price, MFISD Superintendent Jeff Gasaway told the board that “soft costs” would likely raise the final total of the project to around $8 million.
The new total will place MFISD nearly $1.5 million over the budgeted expense for the project, meaning they will have to rearrange funding of other bond projects to bridge the gap.
The baseball field was initially slated for completion in February of this year, but it was put on hold at an Oct. 20 board meeting after major inaccuracies in the cost estimate for the facility and other major bond projects were discovered.
MFISD’s architecture firm at the time, Pfluger Architects, originally placed a $6.5 million price tag on the facility. Once the buildout phase came, however, bidding estimates were closer to $10 million. Upon finding further inaccuracies on other project estimates, MFISD suspended their partnership with Pfluger and began searching for a new firm.
According to MFISD’s item brief on the baseball facility, American Constructors will be the new firm spearheading construction.
The facility’s construction and completion also serves as a checkpoint for the high school’s $26.05 million multipurpose indoor sports facility, and has subsequently delayed any progress on that project.