Soccer Stadium Design Work Revealed: Replacing Mall with New Stadium

Mayor London Breed recently informed reporters and business leaders at the Chamber of Commerce’s Financial District offices that San Francisco is conducting “some preliminary design work on what potentially is possible” for a soccer stadium to replace the struggling downtown mall, which Unibail-Rodamvo-Westfield has decided to hand back to lenders. Gensler architecture firm is in the very early stages of conducting a feasibility study. Mayor Breed expressed hope about developing a new facility in an area suffering from store closures, including Nordstrom’s soon-to-close space at San Francisco Centre. Despite not owning the mall or having professional soccer team currently, she remains optimistic about her ability to get such project off ground.