North Stand Construction Discussion

HelloCity said:
You think people in those seats will want to stand up and won’t complain about banners etc?
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Of course they won’t, Hello City. ;-)

Blue Lama is right.

It’s a great place to put a new block of premium seats.

I’m sure they’ll join in waving flags and holding up 2 sticks at the start of the match, helping with the drop down banner, standing up for 90 minutes, singing, clapping, creating an atmosphere, and doing the Poznan, whilst paying extra for a padded seat.
 
Coatigan said:
That aside, I think it looks great and is a hell of a development. It is pretty ambitious. The hotel is probably the bit I find somewhat underwhelming. But in the grand scheme of things, there's more there to be impreased by.
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Concur...overall its exciting stuff & fair play to the fellow Blues trying to direct this in what us fans would like to create a proper, vociferous home end.

Agree about the proposed hotel images...certainly doesn't strike me as appealing & more 1970's Berlin office block vibes. Thought it would have been a good opportunity for some architects to make a splash in this design.

Looking more closely at the renders for the north stand lower level 1, there actually does seem to be some glass boxes right at the top of this level sandwiched right below the beginning of level 2. Certainly looks corporate to me, although the first 10-15rows of level 1 seem to have general seating within this render which probably makes more sense.
 
blueparrot said:
Going off that, to me it seems a viewing platform for the Sky bar, then directly below that another hospitality section, ( maybe the @bluesmith Players lounge ? ) then some other hospitality / corporate at the back of tier 1. Nothing at the front of the second tier looks like hospitality to me, though there could be a 93:20 type premium seat offering I suppose.
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I'm away on holiday at the minute so can't check the docs I have, when I'm back sunday I'll check where the players club/lounge is shown. Gut feel is it was not at the top, but I'm going off the area rather than seating, they could have the area low and seats high, although that would be unusual.
 
Jacko1956 said:
Think it's level 1 where the replacement for the existing corporate area in what would be the old level two which would have to included in the plans !
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Yeah, I did say earlier on in the thread. It looks like L2 has been superimposed over L1 in the drawings? It’s hard to tell.

Currently on the iPad, which keeps on crashing on the PA. I’ll have a look through the PA on my PC later on to see if I can find anything more concrete.
 
bluesmith said:
I'm away on holiday at the minute so can't check the docs I have, when I'm back sunday I'll check where the players club/lounge is shown. Gut feel is it was not at the top, but I'm going off the area rather than seating, they could have the area low and seats high, although that would be unusual.
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Maybe if not that bit, then maybe the bit at the back of tier 1 that looks like hospitality,either as far as I’m concerned would be fine. The front of tier 2 not so much but that seems from the renders not to be a thing really and just an anomoly on the drawings causing confusion.
 
jrb said:
I agree. That’s why it would be good if the club clarified it one way or another asap.
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Looking back at that diagram, along with the 'concourse welfare facilities' on p87, it could also be that the area highlighted is the hospitality area 'below' the seats, rather than the seats themselves. Particularlyas the capacity of those rooms below is similar. As you say, it will be clarified either way.
 
May have already been posted?

Think I’ve found the proof.

Stairs leading from the hospitality area up to the front of level 2. 11 rows of (hospitality) seats under the stairs at the front of level 2.

Above the hospitality area on the next level up are stairs leading from a normal concourse to the seats above the hospitality seating on level 2. 10 rows of seating.

Then behind those seats are more seats further up the stand.

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jrb said:
May have already been posted?

Think I’ve found the proof.

Stairs leading from the hospitality area up to the front of level 2. 11 rows of (hospitality) seats under the stairs at the front of level 2.

Above the hospitality area on the next level up are stairs leading from a normal concourse to the seats above the hospitality seating on level 2. 10 rows of seating.

Then behind those seats are more seats further up the stand.

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Fairly conclusive.

You can also see the word Hall at the very edge of the first image - this is the City Hall area I've mentioned previously. I've not seen it on other planning docs - it's been shown as void space.
 
jrb said:
May have already been posted?

Think I’ve found the proof.

Stairs leading from the hospitality area up to the front of level 2. 11 rows of (hospitality) seats under the stairs at the front of level 2.

Above the hospitality area on the next level up are stairs leading from a normal concourse to the seats above the hospitality seating on level 2. 10 rows of seating.

Then behind those seats are more seats further up the stand.

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Well. Not to be dramatic, but that’s the end of the atmospheric home end

11 rows of hospitality!? In a home end ..May as well just be kept as level 2
 
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bluesmith said:
Fairly conclusive.

You can also see the word Hall at the very edge of the first image - this is the City Hall area I've mentioned previously. I've not seen it on other planning docs - it's been shown as void space.
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Manchester Hall.
 
bluesmith said:
Fairly conclusive.

You can also see the word Hall at the very edge of the first image - this is the City Hall area I've mentioned previously. I've not seen it on other planning docs - it's been shown as void space.
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City Hall looks a great concept, massive bar area with capacity for 1800 people, the bar area will serve CH and City square
 
3 hospitality areas in the new North stand. Wow!

Already been posted, but enlarged.

New North stand total, 10,742.
VIP Skybar, 456.(purple)
Hospitality suites, 120.(brown under purple)
GA - General Admission?
GA+ (Hospitality LO1), 648.(yellow)
GA, 9,518.

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