The new home of the Nashville Soccer Club, the largest soccer-specific stadium in the U.S. and Canada, overcame pandemic-related issues and even a tornado that destroyed more than 500 light fixtures to finish below budget and seven weeks early, allowing the team to host its first event of the season on May 1, 2022.
ENR Midwest's finalists for Project of the Year are a Populous-designed sports stadium with a stunning PTFE roof and sides that evokes Minnesota's northern lights, the latest in acoustic technology at a new music venue at the University of Wisconsin and a twisting, scenic pedestrian bridge in Dublin, Ohio.
Workers completed substantial construction on D.C. United's $500-million soccer-specific stadium in time for the team to host its first Major League Soccer match on July 14.
After playing in 56-year-old RFK stadium since 1996, and withstanding years of starts-and-stops on its stadium proposal, D.C. United has become the latest Major League Soccer team to win the right to build its own soccer-specific facility.