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Beavercreek Press Box Construction 2026

Beavercreek City Schools is putting a two-story building at its softball field in Greene County: concessions on the ground floor, press box above it. The footprint is 325 square feet — twenty feet wide and about ten and a half deep on each level — and it is built from the ground up, on a post-and-pier foundation, with permits carried in Prodigy's scope rather than the district's.

The concessions level opens to the crowd through two manual overhead doors, one of them set at a 36-inch sill to serve as the counter, with lockable hardware on the inside. It has six receptacles and two vapor-tight LED fixtures, and deliberately no cooking equipment and no water service. Upstairs, three five-by-four vinyl slider windows run the width of the room over a twelve-foot laminate counter, with a wood rail and balusters, four more receptacles and three more fixtures. The building is framed in wood, wrapped in Tyvek, sided in six-inch reveal vinyl, roofed in asphalt shingle with an aluminum gutter, and finished inside in painted plywood. A new single-phase panel serves the lighting and outlet circuits.

Around it goes roughly 3,500 square feet of concrete — a walkway set 24 feet back from the field fence line running dugout to dugout, and a pad behind the building for the concession area. The existing block dugouts are repainted inside and out in black with an orange accent stripe three courses wide, the orange specified down to the number.

Window band and overhead door on the new Beavercreek press box under a summer sky

Beavercreek press box and concessions building with bleachers and the outfield fence beyond

Technical Discussion

A 325 square foot building takes the same code path

The instinct with a press box is to treat it as equipment — something a booster club orders and a crew sets on blocks. It is not equipment. It is a two-story occupied structure with a public-facing sales opening below and people working above, and it goes through the same review as a building twenty times its size. The square footage is the only thing about it that is small.

You can read the code path straight off the contract, because the items that get dimensioned are the items a plans examiner asks about. The foundation is post-and-pier, which still means footings to depth and an inspection before anything is framed on top of them. Egress from the second level is a wood-frame stair with 2x12 treads, and the guard along the open side is a 36-inch wood rail with balusters. The only exterior door is a 36-by-80 fiberglass unit. The second floor is 3/4-inch tongue-and-groove subfloor, and its finished height is called out to a fraction because the ceiling is sloped under the roof. None of those numbers are stylistic.

One scope decision does more to shorten the path than any other: the concessions space has no cooking equipment and no water service. That keeps a 325 square foot building out of plumbing work and out of a food-service review it would otherwise have to clear. The electrical still stands on its own — a new single-phase panel, separate lighting and outlet circuits, ten receptacles between the two floors, five vapor-tight LED fixtures — and gets its own permit and its own inspection.

Which is the part that matters to a district. These projects do not usually stall in the field; a building this size frames fast. They stall in the jurisdiction, with a business office chasing a plan review over the summer for a structure that has to be usable on the first home date. Permits sit in Prodigy's scope here for that reason. The season is the schedule, and the permit is the long pole in it.

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