Originally and quickly conceived as a call to arms, Thursday night’s panel discussion/rally featuring MLS commissioner Don Garber and Nashville SC owner John Ingram will be a celebration instead. A soccer stadium deal had been reached, then dramatically imperiled by new Nashville mayor John Cooper, then reached and announced again, finally, on Thursday morning.
Nashville SC will play its first two MLS seasons in the Titans’ Nissan Stadium and then at some point in 2022, move into a new, 30,000-seat venue located a couple miles south of downtown.
Although approved decisively by Nashville’s Metro Council in the fall of 2017, the Fairgrounds Nashville project was opposed by Cooper.