“On behalf of our residents that love coming to games here, thank you for continuing to invest in our community, thank you for investing in the stadium...this is all part of our efforts to really lean in to make sure we're taking care of FC Dallas, our professional soccer franchise right here in Frisco, Texas,” Mayor Jeff Cheney said in a March 26 FC Dallas news release.
What you need to know
Frisco City Council members, FC Dallas officials and representatives from the construction firm Moss Construction celebrated the start of construction at the soccer stadium on March 26.
Moss Construction is the firm hired for the work at Toyota Stadium. Construction will be done in phases over the next three years and includes:
- Upgraded club spaces and seating
- New luxury suites
- New broadcast booths and press box areas
- New stadium technology and broadcast capabilities
- New LED sports lighting and other audio and visual upgrades
- New food service commissaries and kitchens
- New public restrooms, concessions and retail outlets
- New entrance gates at the stadium’s north, east and west sides
- New canopy shade structures
- Adding over 3,400 seats
Looking back
Plans to renovate Toyota Stadium, which first opened in 2003 through a private-public partnership with the city, were approved by the city in September.
“Now 20 years later we're having effectively a re-groundbreaking of this amazing facility and it's no longer in the middle of nowhere, this is the middle of where everything is happening in North Texas, it's the epicenter of growth,” Cheney said in the release.
