Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

Thanks for all that mate - I’m up to date now.
Heard the blade was going ahead (cylinder next?) which is good news.
Don’t recall the greengate one off the top of my head but I suspect it’s one I saw last year.
Any rumblings on Trinity?

thanks jrb.

Think Renaker are concentrating on the current developments. As listed. Plus Deansgate Square and Castle Wharf. Both still under construction. The Cylinder will probably be next after the Blade. Maybe another proposal at Greengate after Greengate Park?

Think Trinty is long-term for Renaker. An interesting location on the edge of the city centre, next to Regent Road. I’d like to see a mixed use proposal for this site, rather than just apartments, as it connects Manchester and Salford, with Factory, St John’s/Enterprise City, and Middlewood Locks bordering it.
 
Will you be getting your step ladders and camera out for the arena build? Used to love your updates on the academy build especially.

Ha!
Only on the footbridge.
Thankfully there’s plenty of vantage points along Joe Mercer Way. And I recently purchased a better camera.
 
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It's really important to the ones who can't get in (Covid aside).

And anyone who doesn't understand that our owner only looks long term hasn't been paying attention.
City don't have the fan base to sustain large crowds when the team is not performing. We needed to build the fanbase when we were the elite club.

Boat missed.

Need to get it right on the pitch again otherwise a stadium expansion is just not happening.
 
City don't have the fan base to sustain large crowds when the team is not performing. We needed to build the fanbase when we were the elite club.

Boat missed.

Need to get it right on the pitch again otherwise a stadium expansion is just not happening.
When covid restrictions on are over and things get back to normality, I very much doubt we will sell out, including the biggest games. It could be a couple of years before clubs are allowed their full capacity but I think too many will have become more comfortable watching games on TV than being bothered to go back watching live games. I've already decided I wont renew my SC and I might go to a few games. Thing is, I'm not really missing going and I reckon thousands of fans feel the same, not just blues either.
 
Got to be honest, I’m not missing traipsing down to the Etihad for the midweek games. Especially the CL group stage games.

Think any talk of the stadium expansion is dead in the water atm. Even if Messi signs next season, the fear of catching COVID, even after the COVID vaccine is rolled out, will still put people off from going to matches.
 
City don't have the fan base to sustain large crowds when the team is not performing. We needed to build the fanbase when we were the elite club.

Boat missed.

Need to get it right on the pitch again otherwise a stadium expansion is just not happening.
We got decent crowds with Stuart Pearce in charge and hardly any goals in the 2nd half of one season.
 
ASM have failed in it's final bid to block the new East Manchester Arena. Good!

Let's construction finally begin properly without any further legal interruptions and stunts from ASM.

 
ASM have failed in it's final bid to block the new East Manchester Arena. Good!

Let's construction finally begin properly without any further legal interruptions and stunts from ASM.

They should have spend their time improving security and acoustics at their concrete carbuncle by Victoria Station instead of trying to block much-needed investment in Manchester at a time when the city needs it most.
 
City don't have the fan base to sustain large crowds when the team is not performing. We needed to build the fanbase when we were the elite club.

Boat missed.

Need to get it right on the pitch again otherwise a stadium expansion is just not happening.
City have a fan base in Manchester alone to sustain large crowds but the club have concentrated on profits, corporates and worldwide reach, and have missed out on getting a grip of our local fans.

Also, City have lost long standing match going fans. I know bloody loads who’ve stopped going. Lads who felt their tickets got too expensive; the way the club concentrated on a kids’ theme park matchday experience left a few lads feeling disconnected and not part-of-it anymore; lads who had to move from parts of the stadium to make way for new areas like the Family Stand or corporates (one lad sat on Level 2 and had to make way for corporate areas and was told he couldn’t sit next to his mate as they could find two seats together so he stopped going full stop).

I think City have [wrongly] tried to become a worldwide supported club and they’ve not done things well with people who were already City fans or already matchgoing fans.
 
City have a fan base in Manchester alone to sustain large crowds but the club have concentrated on profits, corporates and worldwide reach, and have missed out on getting a grip of our local fans.

Also, City have lost long standing match going fans. I know bloody loads who’ve stopped going. Lads who felt their tickets got too expensive; the way the club concentrated on a kids’ theme park matchday experience left a few lads feeling disconnected and not part-of-it anymore; lads who had to move from parts of the stadium to make way for new areas like the Family Stand or corporates (one lad sat on Level 2 and had to make way for corporate areas and was told he couldn’t sit next to his mate as they could find two seats together so he stopped going full stop).

I think City have [wrongly] tried to become a worldwide supported club and they’ve not done things well with people who were already City fans or already matchgoing fans.
I think you are specially spot on about
"the club concentrated on a kids’ theme park matchday experience" .
 
City have a fan base in Manchester alone to sustain large crowds but the club have concentrated on profits, corporates and worldwide reach, and have missed out on getting a grip of our local fans.

Also, City have lost long standing match going fans. I know bloody loads who’ve stopped going. Lads who felt their tickets got too expensive; the way the club concentrated on a kids’ theme park matchday experience left a few lads feeling disconnected and not part-of-it anymore; lads who had to move from parts of the stadium to make way for new areas like the Family Stand or corporates (one lad sat on Level 2 and had to make way for corporate areas and was told he couldn’t sit next to his mate as they could find two seats together so he stopped going full stop).

I think City have [wrongly] tried to become a worldwide supported club and they’ve not done things well with people who were already City fans or already matchgoing fans.
Exactly this,keep it simple as it always was,
I was 4/5yrs old when I first went sat on the white wall around the pitch,
Started going with mates around 9/10yrs old, get there early watching the players on the pitch warming up and then coming over to the kids bit of a chat autographs,it made your day having such players doing that,book bell summerbee etc,
Were as now greeting the coach and if your luck you might touch hands with some off them,
No connection what so ever.

As for corporate.i was thinking the size of ours compared to the scum, is it on their scale or smaller( not in members size,capacity wise)
 
Coach Wreckers reviving plans to expand Anfield again to 61,000.

 
Coach Wreckers reviving plans to expand Anfield again to 61,000.

Must need an extra £50m to balance their books..
 
ASM have failed in it's final bid to block the new East Manchester Arena. Good!

Let's construction finally begin properly without any further legal interruptions and stunts from ASM.

Looks amazing, just hope it doesn't eat into any potential revenue from gigs we'd make.
 
Looks amazing, just hope it doesn't eat into any potential revenue from gigs we'd make.

The Coach Wreckers were already hoasting concerts at Anfield. They've basically used our blueprint on and off the pitch to increase their revenues. Including hacking our player database.

City will get revenue from having the Arena on the Etihad Campus.

Be interesting to see if City keep on hosting large concerts once the arena is built, or if City step aside, take the rent money off OVG, and let them hold multi-date concerts in the new arena.
 
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