'Aggressive' timeline revealed to build pro soccer stadium in Detroit by 2027

[Airforceguy]

The Detroit City FC professional soccer club intends to start demolishing the old Southwest Detroit Hospital in July so that it can finish building a

15,000-capacity soccer stadium on the site by spring 2027.
Two of the club's co-founders shared this schedule plan and other previously unreported details on the project during a Tuesday night, May 27, meeting of the Corktown Business Association. Club co-founder Sean Mann described the schedule, which calls for an early 2026 start to vertical construction, as an "aggressive timeline," but one necessary to get the stadium finished in time. The project also includes a large multilevel parking deck to go near the future stadium."The goal is to get this done by the spring of '27," Mann said at the meeting, held at the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Detroit.

He and fellow soccer club co-founder Todd Kropp said that this summer they plan to reveal final renderings for the stadium as well as the venue's official name.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/bu...e/83879509007/

[Redesigned83]

happy to see it'll be a fast moving project

[softailrider]

Hope they make the seats comfy for sleeping. That sport, at any level is a snooze festival.

[Danny]

If you built it. They will come.

[K-slice]

Does it just SEEM aggressive locally because we're used to the Pizza Bozo's taking decades to come through on anything?

[Zads07]

Amway Stadium in Grand Rapids broke ground last month and they expect to open in spring 2027. The fact that there hasn't been any movement on the building to tear down and is aiming for July is quite aggressive. Demolition and removal of the old hospital will take a month probably. Then you can start on the utilities and pilings.

If they want to be open for the 2027 season in March, this should have started 2 months ago and starting actual construction in probably August is EXTREMELY aggressive.

[Redesigned83]

I mean, a stadium in a year and a half is kinda crazy. I'm for it though.

[Danny]

Great spot in the Corktown and near Mexicantown. Futbol is popular to them just that same as Arabs and Bangladeshi in Hamtramck.

[Lowell]

Parking lot looks like a bit of a boring eyesore for Michigan ave. Too bad the position of the stadium and it couldn't be flipped. Access to the stadium could be a challenge with only 685 spaces there and the site cut off by expressways and rail tracks.

Maybe Nemo's with their parking lots and bus system could fill the void.

[ParisianLesion]

Hope they make the seats comfy for sleeping. That sport, at any level is a snooze festival.

Tell me you've never been to a DCFC game without telling me you've never been to a DCFC game. You may not be a fan of the action on the field but I can promise you wouldn't get a wink of sleep during one of those games if you took a Xanax and watched from a Lazyboy recliner.

[401don]

Tell me you've never been to a DCFC game without telling me you've never been to a DCFC game. You may not be a fan of the action on the field but I can promise you wouldn't get a wink of sleep during one of those games if you took a Xanax and watched from a Lazyboy recliner.

Thousands get drunk and rowdy to watch darts. Doesn't make any less boring.

[DetroiterOnTheWestCoast]

Parking lot looks like a bit of a boring eyesore for Michigan ave. Too bad the position of the stadium and it couldn't be flipped. Access to the stadium could be a challenge with only 685 spaces there and the site cut off by expressways and rail tracks.

Maybe Nemo's with their parking lots and bus system could fill the void.

It is an unfortunately configured property that does require the stadium to be behind the parking. And I agree that it seems like a small amount of parking. I’m not familiar enough with the area to know if there’s enough other parking nearby.

It will be nice to see the eyesore of the old hospital gone.

[401don]

Parking lot looks like a bit of a boring eyesore for Michigan ave. Too bad the position of the stadium and it couldn't be flipped. Access to the stadium could be a challenge with only 685 spaces there and the site cut off by expressways and rail tracks.

Maybe Nemo's with their parking lots and bus system could fill the void.

There are lots of private lots surrounding the site, both west of 75 and between Slow's and the Corner Ballpark. People will be selling spaces and easily accomodate the parking needs. As you stated, the bars will also run shuttles. If you drove around near Michigan & Trumbull you'd never believe 50,000 people used to find parking.

[Airforceguy]

Detroit soccer club buys more land for new stadium

Last month, the Detroit Land Bank Authority board signed off on selling nine parcels to an affiliate of the wildly popular men’s and women’s soccer teams that currently make their home at the roughly 7,200-seat Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck. According to land bank documents, the $538,210 purchase is contingent upon the team also acquiring other privately-owned parcels that are sandwiched between the land bank-owned properties at 2827 Standish St.; 2835 Standish; 2841 Standish; 2845 Standish; 1858 21st St.; 1852 21 St; 1846 21 St; 1822 21 St; and 1816 21 St.

In all, the nine parcels to be purchased by DCFC's affiliate, 402310 Holdings LLC, total about two-thirds of an acre. It would have about 160 spaces, the land bank documents say. The “402310” in the affiliate company name is an inverted homage to the late Brazilian soccer legend Pele, who was born Oct. 23, 1940.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-e...nd-new-stadium

[canuck]

Thousands get drunk and rowdy to watch darts. Doesn't make any less boring.

On the other hand, baseball games largely consist of pitchers scratching balls and catchers spitting in the sand. That leaves plenty of time to fetch a beer and go for a pee between actual plays…

[sirrealone]

On the other hand, baseball games largely consist of pitchers scratching balls and catchers spitting in the sand. That leaves plenty of time to fetch a beer and go for a pee between actual plays…

I take it you haven't watched baseball since they instituted the pitch clock. Because none of what you've described happens anymore.

[Lowell]

Tell me you've never been to a DCFC game without telling me you've never been to a DCFC game. You may not be a fan of the action on the field but I can promise you wouldn't get a wink of sleep during one of those games if you took a Xanax and watched from a Lazyboy recliner.

You are very right on that. The DCFC games are attended by a youthful, devoted fan[atic] base that is constantly yelling, chanting, singing, and rollicking throughout the game. When "Le Rouge" scores, the crowd explodes and the red and yellow smoke flares of the team colors go off.

The game itself may fit the definition of opera: “great moments and boring half hours,” but this crowd has the most fun of any I have ever seen in Detroit sports. It’s not just a game, it’s an event.

[Lowell]

This rendering gives me more hope than the one above did. It appears there will be some office area masking some of the parking lot reducing the ugliness. Note that they included some red and yellow flares going off in the crowd.

[canuck]

I take it you haven't watched baseball since they instituted the pitch clock. Because none of what you've described happens anymore.

That was a good move on the Leagues’ part, for sure. I was just reacting to the notion that soccer, or football as it is known the world over, is soporific. I mean, seriously…

[Zads07]

Cannot wait to see more renderings of the facility itself and you're right, there is some sort of building masking the parking.

It's an odd-shaped parcel where this probably is the best fit. I do hope that a community feel is part of the stadium area rather than just a stadium and a parking deck - homes, restaurants, businesses from Michigan Ave. all the way to Vernor and to Michigan Central.

[DetroitSoldier]

The club has made it very clear that there will be residential elements to the full development. In both owner/investor meetings and public discussions they stressed that the only way this will work is if it can generate revenue 365 days a year. Residential/retail is the easiest way to do that.

[ABetterDetroit]

If the only public money they need is to bring down the wreckage of the Hospital down… God speed to them.

But getting all excited about a ‘residential element’ to a sports stadium? I will only say I have heard that stuff before a couple of times and I’m not easily fooled by just ‘renderings.’

[canuck]

If the only public money they need is to bring down the wreckage of the Hospital down… God speed to them.

But getting all excited about a ‘residential element’ to a sports stadium? I will only say I have heard that stuff before a couple of times and I’m not easily fooled by just ‘renderings.’

Right, especially if rendering of what seems to be the residential portion is anything to go by. I’m puzzled about the rooftop parking surrounded by two stories of apartments. Is that actually going to get a pass from the city?

[Zads07]

If the only public money they need is to bring down the wreckage of the Hospital down… God speed to them.

But getting all excited about a ‘residential element’ to a sports stadium? I will only say I have heard that stuff before a couple of times and I’m not easily fooled by just ‘renderings.’

I understand being hesitant about it. Thank goodness DCFC isn't Ilitch. Overpromising and under-delivering.

[CassTechGrad]

"Aggressive' timeline" ..just don't hire illegal immigrants for the construction crew like down in Flordia. We gotta' build this with American union workers.