SAN JOSE — There’s no name yet, so let’s just call it The Other Stadium.

This is the South Bay sports venue under construction that doesn’t cost $1.3 billion, won’t be hosting a future Super Bowl and hasn’t received much fanfare.

The future home of the Earthquakes soccer team is a largely unnoticed site near the Mineta San Jose International Airport — and it gets nowhere near the attention lavished on the 49ers’ growing palace in Santa Clara. The most eye-catching feature here is massive piles of broken and crushed concrete gathered up by excavator machinery.

“Sometimes I feel that we’re overshadowed, sure,” said Dave Kaval, president of the Major League Soccer team. “But the 49ers stadium is a higher-profile project. And we’re going to have a good stadium, too.”

The $60 million privately funded facility is scheduled to open next spring, although prep work has been challenging on land that once was a factory for M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Crews have spent the past few months digging out huge, reinforced-concrete footings and underground vaults — including Cold War-era bomb shelters.

“I know hard-core fans want this done yesterday because it’s been such a tortured process getting a stadium approved, but the No. 1 thing is to build it right,” Kaval said during a site tour. “Demolition has taken longer than expected because we didn’t know a lot of stuff was buried here.”

The stadium will be worth the wait, said team goalkeeper Jon Busch.

“When it’s all said and done, it’s going to be awesome,” he said. “It will be one of the best facilities in our league with all the bells and whistles.”

For local fans of the world’s most popular sport, the 18,000-seat stadium will mark the culmination of the long-held dream of a soccer-specific venue. The team also envisions this as an urban destination with four community soccer fields and plans for 1.5 million square feet in office space, a hotel and restaurants on the 74-acre site.

The project is part of a sports construction boom throughout the region. The 49ers plan to open Levi’s Stadium next year. UC Berkeley completed its Memorial Stadium renovation last year. The Warriors are trying to get an arena built on the San Francisco waterfront. And the Kings are planning a new NBA home in Sacramento. The A’s continue to pine for a downtown San Jose ballpark and the Raiders also want upgraded digs.

“It’s a Northern California game of ultimate sports Monopoly,” said sports business consultant Andy Dolich. “There’s potentially $3 billion in new stadiums. It’s amazing.”

He added that it’s impossible to overstate how new buildings energize teams and their fan bases.

“That’s especially the case for the Quakes because they’re competing in such a crowded sports space,” said Dolich, a longtime Bay Area executive. “One of the great challenges in an innovation capital like Silicon Valley is that you have to be viewed as cutting edge or you’ll be seen like a ho-hum restaurant.”

While the Quakes stadium may be the cheapest property on this Monopoly board at $60 million, soccer fans are eager for a place to call their own.

“This finally gets rid of the question: ‘Will there be soccer in the Bay Area?’ ” said Kelly Gray, a San Jose native who played for the Earthquakes and now is a team broadcaster. “I grew up never knowing the answer. Now fans know the Quakes will be here for decades to come.”

A previous incarnation of the team played at San Jose State’s Spartan Stadium. But that franchise relocated to Houston in 2005 when efforts to get a facility failed.

The Earthquakes were resurrected three years later under A’s owners Lew Wolff and John Fisher, and the team has played at Santa Clara University’s Buck Shaw Stadium. But the antiquated 10,500-seat facility is the smallest among the league’s 19 franchises — making it hard for the team to expand its fan base and bring in more revenue through ticket sales.

So much excitement surrounded the groundbreaking at the old Food Machinery site in October that 6,256 people stuck shovels into the earth, setting a Guinness World Records mark.

It has been hard to miss how quickly the 49ers’ stadium has taken shape in recent months — although construction was temporarily halted after a worker’s death on Tuesday. But what has been happening at the Earthquakes’ site is less obvious.

A live webcam doesn’t show much besides piles of dirt. Unseen is how crews are doing the gritty work of pulling up tons of concrete and recycling it for use in the stadium.

The steel structure should begin to rise in the summer, Kaval said. The building will have design influences from European venues and include a village green at the open end of the horseshoe-shaped stadium that can host community events.

Gray knows the focus is on Levi’s Stadium because of the popularity of the 49ers and the NFL, and he doesn’t mind one bit.

“The Quakes have always been the underdog, the other team,” he said. “It’s no different with the stadium. But when people come to games, they’re going to love the atmosphere and see how this is great for the Bay Area, too.”

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