Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[Manc in London]

Behined Swinton station just up the road from Swinton town hall in SWINTON

You mean SALFORD Civic Centre? In the Eccles and SALFORD constituency? Many years ago part of the SALFORD Hundred. I also distinctly remember playing against Swinton schools (e.g. Moorside) in sports in SALFORD schools competitions.

Not sure why the locals are so snobby about it. It's name means Pig Town, for goodness sake. There are a number of places in Salford that I would prefer to live. Bit weird trying to be part of another city.

 

[ysmsa]

Lock them up and throw away the key, that's what I say.

Not in Strangeways though, somewhere outside of the city ;-)

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Lock them up and throw away the key, that's what I say.

Give them a shovel and send them to Capris, I say.

 

[MCFCTrick]

Any news/updates on the stadium or collar site per chance?

 

[eyalluvitt]

Played their European home legs at out place too in the 60's. Given our (misplaced) kindness its even more gaoling that they had that bloody sign up for all those years - no class that lot.

So if they knew their History they wouldn’t have made all those childish jokes about our massive floodlights?

 

[jrb]

Mili Da Costa - Linkedin

Busy day in Manchester today full of exciting meetings!

Special thank you Paula Jupp and Edward Coulson for the tour! Downtown in Business X Co-op Live event pending….

 

[toffee balls]

The AO arena is putting up a fight - they have some big plans this year.
I am sure Manchester can support 2 fantastic venues .

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Give them a shovel and send them to Capris, I say.

Capris. Is that the one that Tony Adams had a hankering for?

 

[MCFCTrick]

The AO arena is putting up a fight - they have some big plans this year.
I am sure Manchester can support 2 fantastic venues .

They have made zero investment in the place since it was built. It's crumbling, with dated concession outlets, dark manky feeling concourses. Notorious from day one in having terrible acoustics for all gigs (Unless you are front and centre of the stage, in the most expensive seats)
And yet no attempt has ever been made to improve them .... I know a few sound engineers who have almost thrown the towel in doing the desks there, lol.

Sadly, the owners care not a jot about any of that. As long as they were puling in punters at £daft prices, they couldn't give a flying one.
Only now they finally have competition for those punters, are they prepared to delve into their vast profits and be seen to do something.

Though going off the design, quality modern aspects and acoustics purposed for live music, I doubt there will be any real competition. The central location is the only plus it may have over the new arena, but that gets less and less as the 'centre' grows outward.

I personally will laugh if the Nynex/MEN/AO/AOR/FCUK /Whatever Arena closes it's doors, gets levelled and we see yet more apartments spring up on it's ashes.

Rant over. ;-)

 

[Prophet of Doom]

The ownership of the AO Arena have really dropped a bollock with the lack of investment and it’s now far too late to fight back.

Any investment in the AO by their different owners over the last 30 years would have probably led to different decisions being made over any new arena, but they tried to do it on the cheap and left the door open.

Any exciting new plans they have will revolve around boxing and dancing on ice.

The extra facilities and superior offering at the new arena will make it impossible for the AO to compete.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

The ownership of the AO Arena have really dropped a bollock with the lack of investment and it’s now far too late to fight back.

Any investment in the AO by their different owners over the last 30 years would have probably led to different decisions being made over any new arena, but they tried to do it on the cheap and left the door open.

Any exciting new plans they have will revolve around boxing and dancing on ice.

The extra facilities and superior offering at the new arena will make it impossible for the AO to compete.

Boxing on ice? Sounds interesting. They could have a scoring area like in curling and the boxer tries to punch their opponent into it.

 

[Spanishbob]

So are they expanding the north stand?

 

[berryblue]

So are they expanding the north stand?

Fancy someone remembering what this thread was REcreated for almost 5 years on. ;-)

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

The ownership of the AO Arena have really dropped a bollock with the lack of investment and it’s now far too late to fight back.

Any investment in the AO by their different owners over the last 30 years would have probably led to different decisions being made over any new arena, but they tried to do it on the cheap and left the door open.

Any exciting new plans they have will revolve around boxing and dancing on ice.

The extra facilities and superior offering at the new arena will make it impossible for the AO to compete.

Where is the AO/MEN arena up to with the improvements they said they'd do? (I remember a rooftop garden of sorts amongst other things, which presumably haven't been built and possibly won't be, or have I missed that?)

 

[Deleted member 77198]

The AO arena is putting up a fight - they have some big plans this year.
I am sure Manchester can support 2 fantastic venues .

It definitely can. We already have concerts on at the Etihad with 60,000, or Old Trafford Cricket Ground with 50,000, or Heaton Park with 50,000 crowds at the same time we have events on at the AO.

As well as Castlefield Bowl (8,500), Mayfeild Depot (7,500), Victoria Warehouse (3,500), and the Apollo (3,500), as well as many other small venues also adding up to big figures when reckoned up together.

On one Saturday evening in 2015, we had a 73,512 at the Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford, 50,778 at a Rugby Union World Cup game at the Etihad, and a gig on at the AO with around 18,000 there.

We can have hundreds of thousands of spectators watching something at once in this city.

With a bit of vision and investment, the AO can still play a part in the city.

 

[M12Blue]

If it doesn't sell out, does tgat go on the emptihad stick to beat us

 

[richards30]

So are they expanding the north stand?

Hopefully the club have big plans for the stadium and surrounding area because Leicester have shown plans for their development and it looks amazing!!! We need to continue to improve our stadium to be one of the worlds best! Even the bloody dippers are expanding again so we need to see some significant investment in the etihad and areas around the stadium.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

For what will follow once the Arena is built - a great blueprint will be Wembley Stadium and the SSE Arena.

 

[jrb]

Going to do a picture update this weekend.

Here’s the link to the ‘live webcam’ if anyone wants to keep an eye on the arena being built? Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

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[Johnny Mars Bar]

Mili Da Costa - Linkedin

Busy day in Manchester today full of exciting meetings!

Special thank you Paula Jupp and Edward Coulson for the tour! Downtown in Business X Co-op Live event pending….

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I’ve got to say, I do like the design of the building. I know it’s just a big box but I think it works.

If they get the transport infrastructure right and there’s enough facilities (catering etc) to maintain the crowds when there’s both a match and an arena event on, it could be great.

Not that I have an awful lot of confidence, I’ll be honest.