Armada Stadium – design description

First ever purpose-built stadium for Jacksonville Armada FC would sit just east of downtown, on a modest 5-acre (2.1-hectare) plot that currently is used as anciliary parking lots on Jacksonville Jaguars matchdays. The site is located close to TIAA Bank Field and just north of Jacksonville Fairgrounds.

The stadium would hold no fewer than 2,500 spectators and no more than 10,000. This way Armada would ensure that return to professional football is possible within the scheme, even if no MLS ambitions can come to fruition within such small site.

The east stand would comprise office space of no less than 25,000 square feet (2,300 m²), largely to accommodate RP Funding, company owned by team owner Robert Palmer. Maximum office space proposed might be far larger, though, reaching 175,000 sq ft (16,000 m²). Between 100 and 200 parking spaces are also planned.

Renderings should be treated as preliminary, not representative of the final stadium.