U.S. Soccer has sold two adjacent Chicago mansions that served as its longtime headquarters for $3.9 million, according to the Chicago Tribune.
That figure is slightly down from the asking price of $4.2 million that the federation set in January, when it listed the Kimball house and the Coleman-Ames house in Chicago’s Prairie Avenue Historical District.
Together, the two mansions were known as U.S. Soccer House.
The Chicago Tribune said that the mansions’ new owners planned to convert the buildings back to residential usage.
The 19th-century mansions in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood served as U.S. Soccer’s headquarters from December 1991 to last year, when the federation moved its headquarters two miles north to an office building in the East Loop, located at 303 E. Wacker Drive.
Prior to 1991, U.S. Soccer was based in Colorado Springs. Though the federation has relocated to downtown Chicago, it could soon be on the move once again.
A report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last month said that Atlanta had emerged as the front-runner to serve as U.S. Soccer’s new headquarters and official training center. Cary, North Carolina is reportedly also in the mix.
The new HQ would not only contain the federation’s offices, but 14 fields to serve as the home base for all of U.S. Soccer’s men’s, women’s, youth, and extended national teams.
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