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Minium: ODU's Football Stadium Has Been a Signature Project For Virginia Beach Contractor Stephen Ballard

Stephen Ballard has been at his desk for hours, lap top open and cell phone to his ear, jawing with subcontractors, suppliers, architects and construction managers.

It’s 2 p.m. on July 26, six weeks before Kornblau Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium is to open. Ballard, the founder and owner of S.B. Ballard Construction, is talking with a supplier from the west coast when I walk into a ramshackle house on 49th Street Old Dominion University loaned him.

Workers dubbed it “the White House” once Ballard began working here daily in late June.

“You promised they’d be here by now,” he says of some electrical components.