​Construction is officially underway on a new stadium in Detroit’s Corktown for the Detroit City FC professional soccer team.The club’s executives joined with Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield on Wednesday, July 15, to break ground on the 15,000-capacity stadium. The $150-million stadium is being built near the corner of Michigan Avenue and 20th Street, on the site of the recently demolished Southwest Detroit Hospital.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementIt will be called AlumniFi Field, a reference to a consumer brand of the MSU Federal Credit Union.The stadium is expected to be finished and ready by spring 2028, or one year later than was originally planned. AlumniFi Field will have more than twice the 7,200-person capacity of Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck, where the club now plays.Detroit City FC is in the USL Championship league, which is a step below Major League Soccer.Rendering of an overhead shot of the West Exterior of AlumniFi Field, the future home of Detroit City FC.“We’re building something very unique here in American soccer and pro sports” Sean Mann, CEO of Detroit City FC, said during the groundbreaking ceremony, which was held in a large event tent across from the future stadium.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAs part of the stadium project, Detroit City FC plans to also build some commercial space and 104 mixed-income apartments that will wrap around the stadium’s forthcoming 421-space parking deck.Mann said that construction of the apartments will begin after the stadium’s parking deck is finished. There is no “firm timeline” yet for when the apartments would be done, he said. But of the apartments, 76 will be considered affordable housing with below-market rents for those with below-median incomes.The total cost of the full development — stadium, housing, parking deck, commercial space — is projected to be about $200 million. Mann said they recently increased the size of the future apartment building by 28 market-rate units, “to make the project pencil.”1 / 7Fans of the DCFC, who call themselves the Northern Guard, stand on bulldozers during a groundbreaking for the new Detroit City Football Club AlumniFi Field in Corktown on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.(Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press)Mayor Sheffield said the stadium development will create jobs and affordable housing that will have an impact across the city, not just in southwest Detroit and the Corktown neighborhood.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“This is exactly the kind of investment and development that this administration is committed to prioritizing,” she said.More: Fans pack Detroit’s Campus Martius for USA-Belgium World Cup matchMore: The best-ever uniforms from every Detroit pro sports teamSpecial guests at the groundbreaking included Jeremy Alumbaugh, president of the USL Championship league.“The timing for this milestone couldn’t be better,” he said. “Excitement around soccer in the United States continues to build, and as the FIFA World C