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NYCFC release new renderings of Willets Point stadium

The club shared a handful of new images of what will be New York City's first-ever soccer stadium

Andrew Leigh by Andrew Leigh
May 10, 2023
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The first renderings of the NYCFC stadium that will be built in Willets Point, Queens.

The NYCFC stadium in Willets Point will be part of the urban fabric. | Courtesy NYCFC.com

New renderings of New York City FC’s planned Willets Point stadium have arrived. The club shared a handful of new images of what will be New York City’s first-ever soccer stadium, releasing them during halftime of the team’s US Open Cup match at FC Cincinnati. That timing of release might seem odd at first, but it directly coincides with the renderings being presented to Queens Community Board 7, the community board that covers the community in which NYCFC’s stadium is expected to rise.

An early 👀 at New York City’s planned first-ever soccer-specific stadium 🏟 #DaleNewYork

— New York City Football Club (@NYCFC) May 10, 2023

The renderings arrive not long after NYCFC announced its selection of architecture firm HOK to design the new $780 million Queens stadium. NYCFC and its New York City real estate and political partners are currently going through the lengthy, multi-step Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) process for the massive planned redevelopment of Willets Point, which along with NYCFC’s stadium will include 2,500 units of affordable housing, an elementary school, retail shops, and a bunch of new open public space.

The stadium remains scheduled to open in time for the 2027 MLS season, with the ULURP review process expected to ramp up this fall and potentially be completed by spring of 2024. Community board meetings are one part of the land use review process, and these renderings are likely only an early glimpse, meaning we can expect more and more to emerge as the process goes on.

The first renderings of the NYCFC stadium that will be built in Willets Point, Queens.
Courtesy NYCFC.com

This still represents another pinch-me moment for NYCFC supporters who have waited near a decade for actual concrete stadium plans to come to fruition. It’s now much easier to imagine yourself in the future “Sponsor Stadium” Stadium (a very capitalistic change from the Stadium Name placeholder used back in November). The full scope of the Phase 2 Willets Point redevelopment also comes into greater clarity with that wide aerial rendering, with the side-by-side baseball-soccer stadiums blanketed by the new housing-and-retail complexes. A far cry from the large swaths of empty space and parking lots currently surrounding Citi Field, with even further development of those parking lots still possible, if Steve Cohen gets his way.

The first renderings of the NYCFC stadium that will be built in Willets Point, Queens.
Courtesy NYCFC.com

It’s also worth noting that NYCFC this week reportedly met with representatives from supporters groups The Third Rail and Los Templados to discuss what supporters would like to see incorporated into stadium design. That meeting comes not long after the club also surveyed its season ticket holders about the stadium plans, a survey that largely focused on ticket pricing and amenities (and also a hypothetical women’s team).

The first renderings of the NYCFC stadium that will be built in Willets Point, Queens.
Courtesy NYCFC.com

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The first renderings of the NYCFC stadium that will be built in Willets Point, Queens.
Courtesy NYCFC.com
Andrew Leigh

Andrew Leigh

Andrew is the senior editor at Hudson River Blue. He's worked in digital media as an editor and writer since 2008, and has followed NYCFC since its founding in 2013. A native New Yorker who now lives in Queens, Andrew started writing for Hudson River Blue in April 2022.

Comments 3

  1. typoattack says:
    4 weeks ago

    Gotta say I’m kinda… whelmed by the design. It feels like they plucked all of the good features from every new MLS stadium since Exploria and smushed them all together: the exterior of Lower.com, the pitchside seats of BMO Stadium, the supporters’ wall and the corner screens of Exploria, the moat from Yankee Stadium (wait a sec…)

    But it doesn’t feel like it sets itself apart from those stadiums. This is a perfectly functional, proven stadium design, but it feels like the latest in a string of mass-produced MLS soccer specific stadiums–cookie-cutter, if you will. Specifically: Exploria, Lower.com, Geodis, Citypark, Q2. (TQL, Allianz, and BMO Stadium are unique enough that they set themselves apart a little bit, but they’re still sort of cut from the same cloth.) I was really hoping they would do something unique, something that really could only fit in New York.

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    • Col.B says:
      4 weeks ago

      Agreed entirely!

      Reply
  2. Col.B says:
    4 weeks ago

    Plus: capo stands. Ugghh.

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