ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCESeattle Center's[1] project page gives "completion planned for Fall 2027", a season rather than a day.
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- Sep 1, 202750% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Memorial Stadium Reopens at Seattle Center
Seattle Public Schools, the City of Seattle and the Kraken-backed One Roof Partnership are replacing the 1947 stadium with a rebuilt open-air venue for school sport, concerts and community events, keeping and reframing the Memorial Wall that honours 762 local students and alumni killed in the Second World War. It is funded with $110 million of public money plus roughly $30 million raised privately.
- Memorial Stadium's redevelopment at Seattle Center is under construction with completion planned for Fall 2027[1]
- It is run "under a not-for-profit model managed through a partnership between Seattle Public Schools (SPS), City of Seattle (City), and One Roof Sports & Entertainment", deliberately operated as a sustainable not-for-profit venture rather than a commercial enterprise[1]
- Funding is "an unprecedented $110 million in public funding and a capital campaign generating approximately $30 million in community support"[1]
- The public money came in pieces: Seattle voters approved SPS' BTA V capital levy in 2022 including $66.5 million for the project, Seattle City Council approved $21 million that year and a further $19 million in the capital plan in 2023, and the Washington state legislature approved $4 million in the 2023 capital budget[1]
- The rebuilt venue is to be a multi-purpose stadium for student athletics, education, arts, culture, entertainment and community events, with performing arts, commencement ceremonies and a year-round community hub alongside an improved athletic field, and will host concerts, community festivals and professional sports[1]
- It is designed into the Seattle Center campus with new programmable public space and open sightlines linking the stadium to the International Fountain, working toward the Century 21 Master Plan[1]
- One Roof Sports & Entertainment pledged in its RFP response to donate $100,000 annually for five years from the first operating year to support youth access programming[1]
- The project preserves the Memorial Wall, honouring local high school students and alumni who died in World War II, which the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board designated a landmark in 2023[1]
- The wall commemorates 762 Seattle high-school students and alumni, was designed by Garfield High School student Marianne Hanson, and was paid for with revenues from Thanksgiving Day football games played in the stadium from 1947-49; the memorial was chosen for the site by community leaders appointed by Mayor William Devin after the war[1]
- The stadium it replaces was completed in 1947 as successor to Civic Field of 1927, on land the City deeded to SPS in 1946, funded by a school levy and bonds issued in 1942 and 1944; it hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Seattle World's Fair[1]
- The route to construction ran from a 2017 SPS-City partnership agreement and a 2021 letter of intent through a 2022 Memorandum of Agreement leaving SPS as owner with priority use for student events, a 2023 RFP that produced One Roof as private partner, alignment on key terms in 2024, and unanimous approval of the development agreement by the Seattle School Board and City Council in 2025 alongside a ceremonial groundbreaking and the start of construction[1]
- Philanthropy reached $30 million in 2025, and by 2026 foundation work and concrete slabs were complete with the project shifting to vertical construction; public viewing windows are open on Harrison Street and 3rd Avenue[1]
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- [1]50%seattlecenter.com/memorial-stadiumseattlecenter.com· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Sep 1, 2027 ✓· 100% of score
Seattle Center's project page gives "completion planned for Fall 2027", a season rather than a day.
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