Tidewater Landing Stadium

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Tidewater Landing Stadium
Tidewater Landing Stadium
Address200 Taft St, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States of America, 02860
Coordinates 41°52′08″N71°22′57″W / 41.868790°N 71.382590°W / 41.868790; -71.382590
Capacity 10,500-11,000
SurfaceGrass
Construction
Broke groundAugust 16, 2022
Built2022–
Opened2025 (anticipated)
Construction costUS$132,000,000
ArchitectOdell, JCJ Architecture
General contractorCommerce Corporation
Main contractorsDimeo Construction
Tenants
Rhode Island FC

Tidewater Landing Stadium is a 10,500-seat soccer-specific stadium currently under construction in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Once completed, it will be home to Rhode Island FC, a member of the USL Championship. The stadium will be located next to the Seekonk River as a part of a larger neighborhood development and is expected to be completed in Spring 2025. [1] [2]

Contents

History

Development and construction

Development

The stadium was first announced on December 3, 2019, by then Governor Gina Raimondo and Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien at an estimated cost of US$80 million, with a seating capacity of 7,500. [3] [4] The development, called Tidewater Landing, aimed at developing the riverfront and creating a new mixed used development at a total cost of around $400 million. [5] The stadium was expected to open by 2022, ready for the Rhode Island FC to begin play in the 2022 USL Season. [6]

Construction over the development was hindered with problems regarding the site, as toxic materials due to industrial waste led to dangerous levels of toxins being found in the soil on the development site. [7] However, by October 2022 the contaminated waste was cleared and construction was greenlighted, [8] with Dimeo Construction was named as the primary construction contractor. [9] [10]

Financial issues

Funding stood to be a constant issue for Tidewater stadium. With worries over safeguards and guarantees over public money being used properly, [11] with the need of private funding and multiple rounds of grants to help contribute to construction. [12] [13] June 2022 put the project into question, as the state government stood at a deadlock on whether or not to accept a request by developers for $30 million more dollars to continue construction, jumping the projected cost from $59 million to $126 million. [14] [15] After a 6–5 vote, with two abstinences, [16] $36 million in funds, that was originally set aside towards funding apartments and homes on the development site, was redirected all towards the construction of the stadium. [17]

Public bonds again were again withheld in March 2023, citing market worries due to rising inflation and continued effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. [18] By early 2024, all funding for the stadium had been secured, mostly in the form of bonds expected to be paid back over a time period of thirty years, [19] [20] totaling around $54 million. [21]

Construction

A ground-breaking construction was hosted in August 2022, [22] [23] before being paused due to a lack of funding. [24] Construction resumed by the fourth quarter of 2023, before construction again was paused in early 2024 due a new issue arising on the subject of funding. [25] Finally, construction was finally continued by February 2024. [26] The main structure beams were all put into place by mid June 2024, celebrated in a topping-off ceremony. [27] [28]

Installation of seats began in late September. [29] Another setback hit the project during the last quarter of 2024, with the opening date of the stadium pushing the opening of the stadium to move from mid-March to April 2025. [30]

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