The United States Tennis Association was introduced Details of an infrastructure project already underway $ 800 million at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York, including updates at the world’s largest tennis stadium and the addition of a new players performance center.
The two projects, both of which are funded entirely by the U.S., will be completed in time for the United States Open of August 2027. While structural work For the project started in October 2024, Usta Adid not nentate on May 19 The stage of 24,000 places will receive an interior reconstruction, fresh entrances and an increase of 40% of the space in the room.
A new $ 250 million players’ performance center will be built next to an existing parking lot and connecting -Sera -to -stadium by a Skybridge.
Lew Sherer, CEO of Usta and chief executive director, said during an announcement in New York that this is the greatest investment in the History of the United States Open. “This changes the experience of each fan, of each player,” he said. “There’s something for everyone in this design.”
The first phase of the project is already underway and includes structural work To strengthen the column load for the Arthur Ashe stadium to allow the stadium to be built and future phases. The first two stories of the Player Performance Center – which will be a parking garage – in what is now parking at also before the beginning of August 2025 of the United States Open.
Following the three -week tennis event this summer, work will continue to eliminate and replace the existing levels on the court and suite at the Arthur Ashe stadium to expand the Bowl Bowl and create two new levels of dedicated luxury suite and the first two floors of the player’s performance center will be completed structurally.
The third phase, completed between the United States Open of 2026 and the beginning of the U.S. Open of 2027, will complete a new large entry, new league levels and competitions, improvements for all competitions, along with two new sets of mechanical scale and two elevator banks and the finish of the premium hospitality spaces and the player’s performance center.
Danny Zausner, CEO of the National Tennis Center, said that eliminating 2,800 seats from the upper levels and adding 2,000 seats to the court section will bring more people closer to the action, increasing the seats at the edge of 3,000 to 5,000 places.
The suite level will advance a level and will obtain a dedicated enclosure. “With fewer people on the upstairs and more people on the ground floor, they will feel very similar inside,” said Zausner.
The Paseo de Paseo will get 40% larger and new spaces will be added to the north and south, including a new Overlook bar with views of the park. “Everything about the club’s level competitions and the promenade will not seem the same,” Zuasner said. “It’s a new reconstruction.”
There is an increase of 40% of the toilet number and the outlets will increase by 30%. “Everything will be a new and complete look,” Zuasner said.
In general, the Usta will currently move to the Indoor Training Center at the Arthur Ashe Stadium for a total of nine stadium clubs. The suites will be rebuilt with a larger seats and a more open space.
Zausner said that “the structure is incredibly solid”, which is now working on Aecom Tishman as the main contractor. WSP Group as structural engineers and I engineers as mechanical engineers work with the Rossetti architecture firm. A new big entry, a design by Daniel Libeskind, will be ready by 2027. Garrett Singer designs the new club and restaurant spaces.
The new player’s new performance center will bring the first two floors of the new four -story building on the Arthur Ashe Stadium side next to the practice courts. It will include areas of fitness and warm -up inside and open air, redesigned and expanded changing rooms, halls, experiences as a spa, a new player of players and spaces dedicated to the cafeteria and the dining room. The space will host the 2,800 players and guests who come to the three -week event.
Arthur Ashe’s stadium was originally built as a temporary structure for the World Fair in 1964. The United States Open moved to Flushing Meadows Corona Park in 1978 and repopulated the tennis stadium. The stadium was rebuilt in time for 1997 with 24,000 fans.
It was a retractable roof built On the Arthur Ashe stadium almost 10 years ago. The octagonal structure, 236,000 square meters, is larger than an American football field. About 6,500 tonnes of steel were used in its construction.
Now, with the expanded place to 40 hectares, the stadium has been ready for a reconstruction, especially since it has seen record attendance since 2022.
