Louisville City FC Lynn Family Stadium - Soccer Holdings, LLC

• Messer partnered with Harmon Construction, a minority-owned firm, to complete this project as a joint venture.
• Messer/Harmon worked hard to ensure local contractors were able to contribute to the construction of this once-in-a-lifetime project in their community. More than 1,000 people worked on the stadium, with 75% of the workforce living in the Louisville metropolitan area.
• The schedule was a top priority as the team was preparing for its home opener in April 2020.
• There were site challenges, adverse weather conditions and an intensive field installation process, but Messer/Harmon still completed the project two months early.
• Additionally, Messer/Harmon embodied our Zero Injury culture, resulting in 365 consecutive days without an incident.
• The Messer/Harmon team also achieved 34% minority- and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBE) participation, totaling more than $21 million in diverse spend.
• The completion and grand opening of the stadium has been recognized by Greater Louisville Inc. as a 2021 Silver Fleur-De-Lis Award recipient for "outstanding commitments and achievements over the past year in making the Louisville community a better place to live and work."
• 2021 IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) Illumination Merit Award.
• Associated General Contractors of Ohio 2021 Build Ohio Award recipient in the Building-New Category
• 2022 Phoenix Award for the brownfield redevelopment in the Butchertown neighborhood

Check out these links for more information from the project:

• Louisville Business First: How Louisville's New ‘Cathedral’ To Soccer Was Built, and the Surprises That Await Fans
• Louisville Business First: INSIDE LOOK: Construction Wraps on Lynn Family Stadium (PHOTOS)
• Louisville Business First: Racial Injustice Requires a Call to Action
• USL Championship: LouCity Sells Out Single-Game seats for Home Opener
• 2022 National Brownfields Phoenix Award for Brownfield Redevelopment