Denver Developer Scores its First Goal on Path to New Women’s Soccer Stadium

Denver Metropolis Council voted Monday to maneuver ahead an intergovernmental settlement (IGA) between the town and the Broadway Station Metropolitan District Number one by spending $70 million on land acquisition and enhancements that may allow development to get underway on a 14,500-seat stadium for the town’s new Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League crew. 

Whereas the vote doesn’t approve all features of the proposed undertaking, it retains alive the choice to construct the stadium for the yet-unnamed crew inside a long-deserted property in Denver. The settlement will allow the town to spend $50 million for the land and an extra $20 million to construct a 3.5-acre park, roads and a bridge within the space utilizing funds from the 10-year, $937-million Elevate Denver bond program authorized by voters in 2017. 

The stadium can be designed by Populous and constructed on 14 acres of undeveloped land at Santa Fe Yards off I-25 and Broadway in Denver. It is going to be the primary sports activities and leisure district constructed for skilled girls’s sports activities in Colorado, and the second such stadium on the earth. The leisure district is a part of the broader Broadway Station transit-oriented mixed-use improvement, a 41-acre at the moment undeveloped website created when the factories of the Gates Rubber Firm have been demolished in 2014. 

Within the meantime, a 20,000 sq-ft modular stadium can be constructed along side development of the crew’s coaching facility in Centennial, Colo., about 15 miles southeast of Denver. It will function the membership’s residence till the everlasting stadium opens in 2028. Populous is designing the momentary stadium as nicely.

The NWSL crew is being delivered to Denver by an proprietor’s group led by Rob Cohen,
chairman and CEO of IMA Monetary Group, who plans to construct the stadium
for an estimated value of $150 million to $200 million. Some council members expressed concern about utilizing taxpayer funds to assist a non-public possession group construct a non-public stadium and acknowledged the likelihood that the group would search reimbursement for the development undertaking from the stadium’s sales-generated tax revenues. Others shared concern about placing $70 million towards a soccer stadium at a time when Denver faces a “great want for funds to enhance roads, construct supportive housing and different important wants.” 

Finally, the IGA handed 11-1 in what Denver Metropolis Council President Amanda Sandoval referred to as a “handshake between the town and the NWSL committing to take the undertaking to the subsequent step.” 

The ladies’s soccer crew will play on the momentary stadium for the 2026 and 2027 NWSL seasons. As soon as the crew strikes into its everlasting residence, that stadium can be diminished to 4,000 seats and utilized by the Cherry Creek Faculty District. 

The not too long ago constructed Kansas Metropolis Present’s CPKC Stadium is the one different sports activities stadium constructed for skilled girls’s sports activities.