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.
'Aggressive' Timeline Revealed to Build Pro Soccer Stadium in Detroit by 2027
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.
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Studio Reimagines Abandoned Atlanta Stadium as Green, Urban Oasis
Some of the brightest design minds at Georgia Tech have birthed ambitious, fantastical, and perhaps unrealistic ideas such as the MARTA Mountain concept at Krog Street Tunnel. But big ideas for Atlanta’s pockmarked urban fabric aren’t exclusively homegrown.
As part of a year-end show that recently concluded, students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design dreamed up inventive new uses for a historic Westside property that’s devolved into one of Atlanta’s largest vacant eyesores: circa-1948 Herndon Stadium, now abandoned for more than a decade.
The studio of graduating students at the private research university in Philadelphia homed in on growing Atlanta as “one of America’s complicated urban landscapes,” where modernity is consistently juxtaposed with important history dating back through the civil rights movement to the Civil War. The broader analysis focused on a four-mile-long transect of Atlanta stretching from Cabbagetown to the former Gulch, Herndon Stadium, and Washington Park.
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Groundbreaking on Tharaldson Family Athletic Center June 12
Valley City State University will host a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, June 12, to celebrate the start of construction on its new athletic facility.
The Tharaldson Family Athletic Center will be located just south of the W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse and will feature a spacious indoor turfed practice area, a modern weight room, a fully equipped training room and new locker room facilities. The ceremony begins at 2 p.m. and all members of the campus and the community are invited to attend.
The project is headlined by a $5 million lead gift from the Gary Tharaldson Family and is being funded entirely by private contributions through VCSU’s Forward Together Capital Campaign.
