The Detroit City FC minor league soccer club announced Thursday that it will build a new stadium in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood on the site of the long-abandoned Southwest Detroit Hospital.
The announcement said the club hopes to complete the stadium and begin playing there in time for the 2027 season. Detroit City FC currently plays at Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck, which it leases. Prior to 2016, the club's home field was at Cass Tech in Detroit.
"This is a huge step for our organization to build a modern venue to serve our club and community," Sean Mann, CEO of Detroit City FC, said in the news release.
"As longtime residents of the city, with a few of us even living within walking distance of the site, the leaders and founders of the club view this project not only as an opportunity to grow our organization and sport, but as a civic endeavor to give back to the city we love," he continued. [Detroit Free Press]
Schenectady County legislators Tuesday night approved a proposed agreement hailed by some of them as transformational and a win-win to bring the 80,000-square-foot facility to the Lower State Street area.
The projected $41.7 million price tag, based on previous plans to construct the center at Via Port in Rotterdam, does not include a parking deck, according to details of the preliminary deal between the county, SUNY Schenectady and the Adirondack Aquatic Center.
Those three entities would provide the financial backing, a combination of federal, state, county and private sector money, for the project that would be built on land jointly owned by the county and college adjacent to the city's Gateway Plaza bus station.
The project site is located on the block between State Street, South Church Street, South Ferry Street and Fuller Street, according to a news release Tuesday night from SUNY Schenectady. It states that the college and county have over the past few years acquired rundown properties in that area and demolished them. [Times Union]
The Wellington Village Council, joined by dozens of other village representatives and the local swim community, held a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday, May 11 for the new Wellington Aquatics Center, which will be built near Village Park’s back entrance off 120th Avenue South. The facility, which will include separate swimming areas for recreation and competitive swimming, is expected to open in late 2025. Photo courtesy the Village of Wellington. [Town-Crier]
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