Detroit City Football Club has presented initial plans for a specific $ 150 million football stadium to be built in a southwest 11 acres site.
Hok is the architect of the New Stadium of 15,000 places. Smithgroup is doing site planning. A contractor has not yet been announced. Detroit FC plays the USL Championship, the second level of male professional football in the united football league system.
Stadium construction, which will be called Alumnifi Field, which is a brand of MSU Federal Credit Union that attends to young adults, It is scheduled to start at the end of 2025 at the site of Southwest Detroit Hospital, which has been vacant for about 20 years and that the club acquired in 2024.
“Our goal is to make a community -oriented stadium, reduce to the neighborhood and additive to what is already in the neighborhood, and it is a regional draw and it is something that residents can come and use, not only on party days. [it will have] in detail and in detail [will] It’s not a dead area, “said the club owner Sean Mann in a local report.
The owner of the Detroit City Football Club is planning that the stadium will pass the city’s neighborhoods.
Map courtesy of the city of Detroit
The stadium is intended to solve Detroit neighborhoods of Corktown and Mexicantown and also generate revenue from concerts and members or other professional sports events.
Chris Devreder, director of Sports + Recreation + Entertainment of Hok, said in a statement that the stadium will be an example of urban placema manufacturing and will embrace the unique place.
The stadium will be financed private and will be owned and operated by the USL team.
Detroit City Council in May approved ABRedfield Refund Agreement This calls for the club to be refunded up to $ 5.9 million for the costs of the old hospital demolition.
The tax revenue generated from the stadium for 21 years would be distributed to the club to cover the cost of the demolition, the elimination of asbestos and other works associated with the place that was a coal court in the 1880s, and was the location of the hospital from 1974 to 2006. The cost of demolition is estimated at $ 6.5 million.
Mann said that the basement of the hospital contains a million gallons of water to pump before the demolition, which is scheduled for autumn, can begin.
Although there are still no specific details for the retail part of the plan, Mann said he plans “bars, restaurants and retail sale to complement the dense and walking neighborhood”.
According to the city, the club has also proposed a residential component with 76 affordable housing units, a parking roof of 421 places and approximately 8,500 square meters of commercial space.
The team is currently playing at the Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck, which has about half the capacity of the new stadium that is planned to open for the USL 2027 Championship season.
