Wichita will soon be home to the Baby Cakes, a Triple-A affiliate minor league baseball team currently New Orleans. A feeder team for the Miami Marlins, their arrival is highly anticipated in 2020. With the new team, Wichita will also receive an updated stadium.

GSI teamed up with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the City of Wichita to provide environmental assessment support for the new stadium project. The new stadium will be built in same the location that had been home to Lawrence-Dumont stadium for 84 years. The new stadium construction is set to begin by April 2019 in hopes of being completed for the city’s new Triple-A team by April 2020.  

GSI worked through KDHE’s Brownfields Program to conduct a Phase II Environmental Assessment on the property.  KDHE’s program provides funding to communities and non-profit organization to perform Phase I and Phase II assessments on properties targeted for redevelopment.  GSI is one of KDHE’s prime contractors.

Ian Smith, lead geologist on the project for GSI, remembers the many times he watched games and actually played in the stadium, both as an area high school player and also as a college player. Ian continues his love for the game as an assistant baseball coach at The Independent High School in Wichita while working as a full time geologist at GSI.