St. Louis Soccer United has secured a 400-acre tract of land that will be used for the site of the stadium complex and surrounding retail and community development. The site is located at the intersection of 255 and Horseshoe Lake Road, 10 minutes east of St. Louis, in the town of Collinsville, Ill.

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This juncture offers excellent highway access from all directions. The project will integrate an 18,500 seat soccer-specific stadium which will be home to the St. Louis MLS professional soccer franchise, a state-of-the-art youth soccer complex with eight FIFA approved artificial turf fields, and a mixed-use development including retail, office, educational, and residential uses.

In addition to supporting the MLS team, the stadium will be capable of hosting numerous other events, such as international and collegiate soccer games, concerts, and various other sporting and entertainment experiences. The stadium complex will also include eight additional quality fields capable of hosting camps, clinics, regional and national tournaments, and league play for local soccer organizations.

The project's soccer-specific stadium will be among the next generation of MLS stadiums striving to capture the intimacy and excitement of the European game. It will incorporate a roof structure which fully covers the seating areas to help mitigate inclement weather conditions and hold in the sound of the crowd. The project design team contributed significantly regarding the stadium's interaction with the surrounding spaces. For example, the orientation of the stadium club and associated veranda to the park and youth soccer pitches (referred to as "the mall") are situated to provide an unobstructed view from the club over the town square and the mall to the downtown St. Louis skyline in the background.

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