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Dick's Sporting Goods Park
DSG Park, The Dick
Location	Commerce City, Colorado
Broke ground	September 28, 2005
Opened	April 7, 2007 (expected)
Owner	Commerce City
Operator	Kroenke Sports Enterprises
Surface	Grass
Construction cost	~$131 million USD (estimate)
Architect	HOK Sport + Venue + Event
Tenants
Colorado Rapids (MLS) (2007-Present)
Capacity
18,000

Dick's Sporting Goods Park is a soccer-specific stadium located at 6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, Colorado, 80022 and is home to the Colorado Rapids professional soccer team. It can seat up to 18,000 people, but may accommodate up to 26,000 for certain events and is built on over 360 acres (1.5 km²) of land. It is billed as the 'biggest and most state-of-the-art professional stadium and field complex in the world'. Also included at the venue are youth soccer fields (24 fully-lit professional fields, two of which are year-round artificial grass fields), retail development, and a new Commerce City civic center. It is owned by Kroenke Sports Enterprises (KSE) who also own the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Crush and the Colorado Mammoth. The estimated cost of this project was $131 million, [[1]] with investment shared equally between the city and KSE.

The complex is close to Denver's former Stapleton International Airport and is bordered on the north and east by the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, to the south by 56th Avenue, and to the west by Quebec Street.

It will host the 2007 MLS All-Star Game. [2]

The stadium's awkward nomenclature and suggestive name have given rise to some degree of crude humor, and it has been popularly nicknamed "The Dick". [Source supporting popular usage]

Fan-generated image gallery of the stadium:

Composite graphic image of The Dick, inside view, March 2007

[Most facts from the official A-Z guide or dsgpark.com website]

• Seats: 18,000 (up to 26,000 or more for concerts)
• Fields: 25 (1 inside stadium, 24 fully-lit fields surround stadium, one of which is designated as the Colorado Rapids training field, and two other fields are Desso Pro Challenge 60 artificial turf instead of natural grass for year-round play,)
• Parking: ~5,000 spaces, >100 disability-marked spaces
• Main Field surface: Kentucky Bluegrass, over 10" sand/peat root zone, over 4" pea gravel embedded with Perforated Polly Pipe providing field drainage and heating
• Main Field size: 120 yards x 80 yards field of play
• Luxury Suites: 21
• Concession stands: 9 permanent, up to 15 with mobile stations
• Latitude: 39°48'23.91"N
• Longitude: 104°53'48.54"W
• Elevation: ~5,170ft (field-level estimate based on Google Earth)
• Scoreboard: 22' tall x 56' wide Daktronics video board (1,232sqft), mounted 52' above field level
• Televisions: Over 100

• Colorado Rapids official site
• Dick's Sporting Goods Park official site
• Class VI seating club @ the stadium
• PlayCoed.com and Denver Sport and Social provide the official Adult Leagues at Dick's Sporting Goods Park
• Top-view & 3D seating map of The Dick, depicts stadium view from any seat

Preceded by Invesco Field at Mile High 2002-2006

Home of the Colorado Rapids 2007-present

Succeeded by current

Current Stadiums in Major League Soccer
Western Conference		Eastern Conference
Dick's Sporting Goods Park | The Home Depot Center | Pizza Hut Park | Rice-Eccles Stadium | Robertson Stadium		Arrowhead Stadium | BMO Field | Columbus Crew Stadium | Giants Stadium | Gillette Stadium | RFK Memorial Stadium | Toyota Park