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Bay FC Tops Out Treasure Island Performance Center — Bay Area's First Women's Pro Training Facility On Track for Early 2027

Bex ConnollyCity HallFollowJuly 12, 20265:44 PM PT3 min read5 viewsPublished

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Bay FC Tops Out Treasure Island Performance Center — Bay Area's First Women's Pro Training Facility On Track for Early 2027

On June 25, Bay FC placed the final steel beam atop its new Sports Performance Center on Treasure Island, completing the structural skeleton of what the club bills as the first professional sports training facility in the Bay Area purpose-built for a women's team.

The "topping out" milestone — reached less than nine months after the September 2025 groundbreaking — puts the privately funded, 8.5-acre facility on a path to open in early 2027 ahead of the NWSL season, a timeline anchored by a Board of Supervisors–approved land lease from the city's Treasure Island Development Authority.

The topping out ceremony — a construction tradition in which the final structural beam is raised, often signed by workers and officials — signals that the building's steel framework is complete. When finished, the Sports Performance Center will encompass approximately 22,000 square feet of indoor space and three full training fields across 8.5 acres on the former naval station's western shore.

The team assembled for the project spans several major firms: Olson Kundig designed the facility, Devcon Construction is building it, JMA Ventures is the developer, and Legends is handling project management. Bay FC's ownership group — which includes the Bay Collective, led by CEO Kay Cossington, and Sixth Street, co-chaired by Alan Waxman — characterizes the entire construction cost as privately funded.

That privately funded model rests on a public land transaction. In December 2024, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a 25-year lease granting Bay FC access to the Treasure Island acreage through the city's Treasure Island Development Authority (TIDA). Then-Mayor London Breed signed the legislation before leaving office in January 2025. Neither the city nor Bay FC has publicly disclosed the lease rate, meaning an independent comparison to market rates for equivalent publicly held land has not been possible.

Mayor Daniel Lurie — who took office after the lease was signed — and District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey both attended the September 18, 2025 groundbreaking ceremony and offered strong public endorsements of the project.

"Sports are helping drive San Francisco's recovery," Mayor Lurie said at the ceremony. "And just like San Franciscans show up for our teams, Bay FC has consistently shown up for our city. With this training ground, Bay FC is bringing their team another step closer to their San Francisco fans."

Supervisor Dorsey, whose district includes Treasure Island, called it "a landmark investment in both women's sports and the future of Treasure Island," adding: "I'm proud to celebrate this milestone and excited for the inspiration and economic vitality Bay FC will bring to District 6 and our city."

Bay FC's claim that this will be "the first women-specific training center for a professional sports team in the Bay Area" is the club's own framing, echoed by NBC Bay Area. The Golden State Valkyries — the Bay Area's new WNBA franchise — train within Chase Center's multi-sport facilities rather than a purpose-built women's complex, lending credibility to the assertion, though no independent body has formally adjudicated it.

The construction timeline has tracked closely against Bay FC's public milestones: groundbreaking September 18, 2025; foundation pour May 20, 2026; topping out June 25, 2026; pitch installation slated for August 2026. If the schedule holds, the center opens in early 2027 — planting Bay FC's roots on Treasure Island amid one of San Francisco's longest-running urban redevelopment projects, which ultimately calls for thousands of new housing units on the former federal land.

Bex Connolly, City Hall · Politics Desk · The Dissent

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Bay FC and City and County of San Francisco Break Ground on Sports Performance Center on Treasure Island | Bay FCsource extractWas the Bay FC Sports Performance Center on Treasure Island funded in any way by public money from the City of San Francisco, or did Mayor Daniel Lurie or Supervisor Matt Dorsey facilitate any public funding or incentives for the project?
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Treasure Island training facility will become crown jewel for Bay FC women's soccer team - Local News Matterssource extractWas the Bay FC Sports Performance Center on Treasure Island funded in any way by public money from the City of San Francisco, or did Mayor Daniel Lurie or Supervisor Matt Dorsey facilitate any public funding or incentives for the project?
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Bay FC soccer club to build training facility on San Francisco’s Treasure Island | Wilson Meanysource extractWas the Bay FC Sports Performance Center on Treasure Island funded in any way by public money from the City of San Francisco, or did Mayor Daniel Lurie or Supervisor Matt Dorsey facilitate any public funding or incentives for the project?
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Bay FC and City of San Francisco Announce Plans for Permanent Training Facility on Treasure Islandsource extractWas the Bay FC Sports Performance Center on Treasure Island funded in any way by public money from the City of San Francisco, or did Mayor Daniel Lurie or Supervisor Matt Dorsey facilitate any public funding or incentives for the project?
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Bay FC Performance Center on Treasure Island | Bay FCsource extractWas the Bay FC Sports Performance Center on Treasure Island funded in any way by public money from the City of San Francisco, or did Mayor Daniel Lurie or Supervisor Matt Dorsey facilitate any public funding or incentives for the project?
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Bay FC and City and County of San Francisco Break Ground on Sports Performance Center on Treasure Islandsource extractWas the Bay FC Sports Performance Center on Treasure Island funded in any way by public money from the City of San Francisco, or did Mayor Daniel Lurie or Supervisor Matt Dorsey facilitate any public funding or incentives for the project?