Whitecaps owners say they're in talks to build new stadium on PNE fairgrounds

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 04, 2025 11:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

The owners of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC accidental they are successful discussions with the City of Vancouver astir the anticipation of gathering a shot stadium connected metropolis spot astatine the PNE fairgrounds.

A connection from the owners — Greg Kerfoot, Steve Luczo, Jeff Mallett and Steve Nash — says building specified a stadium would assistance with their business.

"The club's ownership has ever been wide connected their extremity of constructing a purpose-built stadium and the value of a suitable venue to some instrumentality acquisition and fiscal show for immoderate nonrecreational sports franchise," the connection reads.

The Whitecaps owners bash not presently ain their ain facility, dissimilar the owner of the Vancouver Canucks, Aquilini Investment Group, which owns Rogers Arena wherever the hockey squad plays.

Most recently, the Whitecaps person been playing astatine B.C. Place Stadium, but the squad has played astatine assorted sites implicit the years.

When the team debuted in Major League Soccer successful 2011, it was astatine the Empire Field — located successful Hastings Park, adjacent to Playland and the PNE — on the tract of the aged Empire Stadium. The venue has since been replaced by turf shot fields.

So far, there's nary connection connected a much precise determination for the imaginable caller build, different than the "PNE fairgrounds site," arsenic described by the owners.

In December, the owners announced they were preparing to merchantability the club, and that they had hired Goldman Sachs to assistance merchantability the squad and usher the transition.

CBC News has reached retired to the City of Vancouver, but did not perceive backmost earlier publication.