New facilities: More than a place to practice

The definition of a pro or college sports training facility has expanded, as evidenced by billions of dollars’ worth of projects that have either just opened or are approaching their individual finish lines. Check out this collection of training facility projects that exemplify some aspect (or multiple aspects) of the trends driving the design and use of these facilities in 2026.

Just opened

Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center

Team: United States Soccer Federation (and all associated national teams)

Cost: $250M

Opened: May 7, 2026

Architect: Gensler

Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie

Info: It’s been challenging for U.S. Soccer to feel unified representing a country as geographically large as the U.S. and using various training sites as temporary homes while the business side was based in Chicago. Everyone — the various national teams, coaching staff and business operations — is concentrated now in Fayetteville, Ga., at a 123-acre, state-of-the-art training center. It boasts 17 training fields of every kind of surface, including beach soccer, and 400,000 square feet of covered facilities; it will also host a series of the federation’s annual tentpole events. It created numerous title sponsorship opportunities scattered throughout the complex that generated new revenue for the federation.

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Blackhawks Ice Center

Team: Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Steel (USHL)

Cost: $65M

(Re)opened: February 2026

Architect: Generator Studio

Contractor: McHugh Construction

Info: Blackhawks Ice Center is a cornerstone of the United Center’s 1901 Project ecosystem, which United Center COO Joe Myhra expects to eventually host 5 million to 6 million visitors annually. The Ice Center’s public and youth sports focus will be big contributors to that number. It includes all the necessary training and player development aspects and a restaurant and coffee bar — for private events or the parent waiting for hockey practice to end — and is another of the pro sports training facilities, especially NHL ones, that features extensive public-facing portions.

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New Balance Athletics Center

Team: New England Patriots

Cost: $95M

Opened: March 2026

Architect: Populous

Contractor: Suffolk Construction, Kraft Group Construction

Info: The 160,000-square-foot facility, situated just south of Gillette Stadium, brings all Patriots football operations under one roof. Believed to be the NFL’s largest facility devoted solely to football — with no team business offices inside — it gives players and coaches direct access from the weight room and locker rooms to the practice fields, eliminating the longer walk they previously made from Gillette Stadium to the old fields.

The New England Patriots' New Balance Athletics Center opened in March. Kraft Sports & Entertainment

RWJBarnabas Health Red Bulls Performance Center

Team: Red Bull New York

Cost: $112M

Opened: April 22, 2026

Architect: Gensler, Drive21

Contractor: March Construction

Info: This facility’s name is a mouthful, but for much of its early life, it’ll be known as the “Columbia Park Training Facility” while it hosts Brazil’s men’s national team during the FIFA World Cup and complies with FIFA’s commercially clean venue requirements. The 80-acre site features eight full-size outdoor pitches of various surfaces and a 350-seat stadium field for Red Bull N.Y. academy matches. Its hub is the 88,000-square-foot main building, home to professional and academy teams. The campus is covered with high-speed Wi-Fi, enabling the club to collect player performance data from training and workout sessions anywhere on-site.

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Victory Heights

Team: University of Pittsburgh

Cost: $244M

Opened: April 2026

Architect: HNTB, WTW Architects

Contractor: Gilbane and Massaro Construction Group

Info: NIL money may dictate most recruiting in college football and basketball, but in Olympic sports and other nonrevenue programs, elite facilities remain an important draw. Pitt’s striking Victory Heights facility, built on the side of a hill, will house 16 of the Panthers’ 19 sports teams and include a 3,000-seat competition arena for the powerhouse volleyball team, as well as gymnastics and wrestling. Credit to the university for sticking with this project, which was announced in January 2020 and persevered through a difficult time for athletic facilities investment.

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Under Construction

Bloom Football Performance Center

Team: USC

Cost: $200M

Opening date: Late summer 2026

Architect: HNTB

Contractor: Clark Construction

Info: Will spending on training facilities shift in the revenue-sharing NIL era? While that remains unclear, athletes and teams still need a place to improve, though there likely will be less superfluous spending on things that don’t affect player performance, coaching/scouting/data and analysis, and donor relations/revenue generation. To that end, USC’s new 160,000-square-foot facility includes a rooftop deck that will be used for recruiting and donor gatherings.

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Broncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit

Team: Denver Broncos

Cost: $175M

Opening date: June 2026

Architect: HOK, Rockwell Group

Contractor: Turner

Info: Once the Broncos’ new training facility and business headquarters open, the organization’s attention will shift even more squarely to its proposed stadium development at Burnham Yard near downtown Denver. The 320,000-square-foot Broncos Park facility sports a unique mass timber roof and will consolidate the functions of several existing buildings (which will be demolished) into one.

An exterior view of Broncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit in Englewood, Colorado on May 13, 2026. Denver Broncos

Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center

Team: Cleveland Cavaliers

Cost: N/A

Opening date: February 2027

Architect: Populous

Contractor: Whiting-Turner

Info: The 210,000-square-foot facility featuring an LED practice court sits on 35 acres next to the Cuyahoga River, anchoring one side of a $3.5 billion mixed-use development project by Bedrock that includes nearby Rocket Arena. While the facility will open in February 2027 for the teams that’ll use it, the public-facing Cleveland Clinic location will open in August 2027.

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CrossCountry Mortgage Campus

Team: Cleveland Browns

Cost: $175M

Opening date: August/September 2027

Architect: AoDK

Contractor: Independence Construction

Info: The training facility/team headquarters/mixed-use development model pioneered by the Cowboys and Vikings remains a hot concept across the NFL. The first building in the Browns’ 16-acre training center mixed-use project opens in early July and will house the new Huntington Bank Field experience/sales center, space for the Browns’ in-house content team and medical office space for the team’s hospital partner, University Hospitals. Hotel construction is underway, and a local high school will play home football games there.

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L.A. Sparks training center

Team: L.A. Sparks

Cost: $150M

Opening date: 2027 WNBA season

Architect: Gensler

Contractor: Clark Construction

Info: A wave of women’s sports-specific training facilities is in various stages of development, serving NWSL clubs, WNBA teams or both, including the unique shared Portland Thorns/Fire facility scheduled to open this year. The Sparks, currently tenants at Crypto.com Arena, will get a home of their own when this facility opens, complete with the spa-like interiors that have become a standard for women’s sports performance centers.

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