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Could Wrigley Field renovations take longer than expected?

The Wrigley Field renovations might take a little longer than initially planned.

According to a report from the Sun-Times, Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said Wednesday at a City Club of Chicago luncheon that the work going on at the corner of Clark and Addison could take up to a year longer than originally thought.

This from the Sun-Times' David Just:

“There will be four more years,” Ricketts said Wednesday after speaking at a City Club of Chicago luncheon. “The way we project it now is four more years of construction.”

Dennis Culloton, a spokesman for Ricketts, confirmed Wednesday evening that the project could very well bleed into a fifth offseason, one more than the original plan.

“That could still be the way it works out,” Culloton said of the original four-phase plan. “But it could take longer. Just take this winter for example, and we have found not only the problem with the weather but the water pipes that we had no control over. It could be four years, it could be five. It’s hard to say.”

Original planning has already proved to be wishful thinking in some cases, as it's already been announced that the famous Wrigley Field bleachers won't be ready for the first part of the upcoming baseball season. The construction has also been delayed thanks to weather, and the mayor's office denied the team's request for round-the-clock construction in Wrigleyville.

However, past the bleachers already known to still be under construction come first pitch against the Cardinals on April 5, the Cubs denied recent rumors that the park as a whole won't be ready for Opening Day 2015.

The new comments from Ricketts show that the entirety of the construction might not be done by Opening Day 2018.