Two Sites Identified as Possible Home for New Albuquerque Soccer Stadium

After months of study, a consulting firm has selected two downtown Albuquerque locations as the best places for a planned multipurpose soccer stadium.

Upon completion, the stadium will be the new home for the New Mexico United soccer team, which was founded in 2018, and is currently playing at the city-owned Rio Grande Credit Union Field at Isotopes Park, located at 1601 Avenida Cesar Chavez SE.

The sites selected by the Denver-based CAA ICON, which provides venue development services for large public stadiums, are both located in semi-residential and commercial areas in the downtown area.

The consultant’s study pinpoints an area near the Coal Avenue and Broadway Boulevard intersection for the stadium, with the second site located at Second Street and Iron Avenue.

It is thought that it will cost around $70 million to build the stadium at the Coal and Broadway site; while the price tag for a stadium at Second and Iron is estimated at just under $65 million.

Whichever location is ultimately picked, the new stadium, most likely with anywhere from 10,000 to 12,000 seats, will also be expected to host a variety of large musical and entertainment events.

In response to the completion of the consultant’s study, Mayor Tim Keller has announced that he will submit a resolution to the Albuquerque City Council, asking members of that body to put on the November ballot a $50 million bond to be used to fund construction of the new facility.

In an interview with the Albuquerque Journal, Keller said his goal is to “make sure and fund the minimum amount required for a stadium.”

But the Mayor added: “If there’s additional extras, how big it is and how nice it is, that’ll depend on other funds or matching funds from other governments and possibly other folks involved in the stadium who may or may not be with the team.”

Members of the New Mexico State Legislature earlier approved some $9 million in capital outlay funding for the project.

By Garry Boulard

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