Turner, the subsidiary of ACS in the United States, will build the future soccer stadium for the New York City Football Club (NYCFC) after being awarded a project worth 780 million dollars (707 million euros). It is the first specifically football stadium in the city. What Americans call soccer and which is nothing like their (American) football.
The project will be located in the Willest Point neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City. As reported by the NYCFC that it works with the Queens District Development Group because it is conceived as a local development project.
Together with the construction of a state of 25,000 towns in the European style, 2,500 100% affordable homes will be built, a new public school with 650 places and a hotel. All this surrounded by open spaces for the execution of which Turner will collaborate with the architectural design studio HOK.
Funding will only come from private equity after completion of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) approval process. The NYCFC expects the facility to be open for the 2027 season.
Owned by the City Football Group, which in turn owns Manchester City in the English Premier League or Girona in LaLiga, the New York City Football Club plays its league matches at Yankee Stadium, the legendary New York baseball stadium. However, this stadium is not endorsed by Concacaf, the governing body for soccer in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, so it must play its international club matches at home in other stadiums. Last season he did it in Los Angeles (California) and East Hartford (Connecticut).
The project is part of the social spirit of this club that for ten years has been investing in the local communities of New York through its foundation, which will be based in the new stadium. The entire project will enter the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure approval process later this year and will be reviewed by the New York City Commission on Public Design.
New York City Football will work towards finalizing the stadium design to align with entry into the land revision approval process later this year. The stadium and development are expected to create more than 14,200 local jobs during construction, and 1,550 permanent jobs upon completion.
Turner and HOK have been chosen for their long history of more than 50 years building more than 400 corporate, health, scientific and technological, and sports and leisure facilities. together across the country.
The ACS subsidiary in the US has a specialized sports group and has worked in the main sports venues in the world, such as the TQL stadium, the SoFi stadium, Lower.com Field, the Golden 1 Center, the the Yankees or Madison Square Garden
