Dan Meis received an intriguing prompt 11 years ago.

“I had a young business development guy that said, ‘Hey, if I can give you a meeting with Everton will you go to Liverpool?’” the stadium design expert recalled. “And I said: 'They’re not going to hire a Los Angeles architect.’ I sort of saw them as like the Cubs of the Premier League, historic and provincial.”

Meis, the architect of Seattle’s T-Mobile Park, Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field and Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, listened to Joshua Boren of his staff and was picked to turn Everton's long-hoped-for stadium into a reality, The Toffees play their first official match in 52,769-capacity Hill Dickinson Stadium on Sunday, their Premier League home opener against Brighton.

“This is going to help us win on the pitch more,

See Full Page