Plan Unveiled for $780M Stadium Anchoring New Development Near CitiField
Plan Unveiled for $780M Stadium Anchoring New Development Near CitiField
Abstract
Major League Soccer team New York City Football Club plans to build a stadium as part of a multiuse redevelopment in the Willets Point section of Queens County, local New York City officials and the team announced Nov. 16. The project would support 14,200 construction jobs, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference. "We can build a city and we can make sure everyone can participate in what this city has to offer," Adams said. The New York Times reported an estimated $780 million price tag for the stadium. Related is working with Sterling Equities through a joint venture called Queens Development Group to partner with the New York City Football Club on the project. That decision drew praise from labor groups including the Cement & Concrete Workers District Council and New York State Laborers' Union LECET. Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, said unions' pre-apprenticeship and direct entry programs would help workers from underserved communities enter the middle class while contributing to the project. "Not only will a new soccer stadium at Willets Point become a cultural and economic hub for generations to come, but this project will also immediately benefit the lives of thousands of hard-working New Yorkers with the good-paying union construction jobs it will create," LaBarbera said.