Mayor Eric Adams joined "All Things Considered" host Sean Carlson to discuss the city's plans to build a 25,000-seat soccer stadium in the Willets Point section of Queens.
In addition to the soccer stadium and a hotel, the redevelopment that includes city-owned land is expected to include 2,500 units of affordable housing — 1,100 of which were planned under de Blasio – making it one of the largest affordable housing projects the city has seen in some time. The $780 million stadium is slated to be home to the New York City Football Club, which for the last decade had been playing its home games at Yankee Stadium. Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards and Sterling Equities, are behind the affordable housing project.
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