MIAMI—Miami Beckham United has picked the spotfor the new Major League Soccer (MLS) stadium. The ownership group,led by David Beckham, MarceloClaure, and Simon Fuller, settled on along-underutilized Florida East Coast (FEC) railway slip alongBiscayne Boulevard to build its privately-funded stadium.

This is a strategic area for the Magic City, seeing as it's thelast dormant stretch of Downtown Miami's waterfront. Once thestadium is completed, this area will be home to green spaces,public plazas and promenades, and, of course, a soccer stadiumthat's home to an MLS team.

As part of the project, Museum Park will expand to include thereclaimed FEC slip and Parcel B, the empty plot of land behind theAmerican Airlines Arena. That totals a net gain of more than fouracres of public park space—and ultimately results in a park thatspans 23 acres of contiguous green space and connects Pérez ArtMuseum Miami and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Sciencewith Bayfront Park.