It’s been more than two years since Major League Soccer awarded an expansion franchise to Nashville. Tennessee’s capital city had its accelerated bid best a host of other cities that aspired to join the league, and an essential reason was Nashville’s pledge to financially collaborate with the team’s owners on building a new stadium. MLS made that much clear.
Nashville SC will begin play in MLS when the 2020 season starts later this month. But construction for the club's new stadium, which is slated to be built at the site of the Nashville Fairgrounds hasn’t even begun. Neither has the necessary demolishment of old Fairgrounds facilities, due to a political battle that is ramping up both in rhetoric and intensity.