The Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League and the city's as-yet unnamed WNBA team will train together at a new performance center in a first-of-its-kind alliance between the two leagues.

Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal, the principals of RAJ Sports, are building a dual-sport women's performance center for the NWSL's Portland Thorns and the WNBA expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026.

The project comes a little over one year after the Bhathal family, who are also investors in the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, completed its $ 63-million acquisition of the Thorns. In September, the family was a warded the WNBA’s 15th franchise, which has sold more than 8,000 season tickets before announcing its name.

The Bhathal family, which owns the Thorns and the new WNBA expansion team in Portland, plans to spend $150 million or more on a dual-team campus.

The Portland Thorns and future Portland WNBA team have a new home.

The first-of-its-kind women's sports facility would serve both the Portland Thorns FC and Portland's new WNBA franchise with a 12-acre performance center.

A state-of-the-art facility and a first-of-its-kind, the Thorns and Portland's future WNBA team are expected to open a joint practice facility by early 2026, owners and operators RAJ Sports announced Thursday.