North Stand Construction Discussion

HelloCity said:
The original seat colour is basically laser blue because that’s what colour we were wearing when the seats were first being put in back in 2002.

Any new seats are of that originally laser blue colour, and they’ll stand out more next to the faded 20+ year old seats which have basically been weathered down to looking sky blue!
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Mine must have weathered more than most it is white
 
One thing I have noticed about the safe standing bars on SSL1, the blue plastic covering along the safe standing bars, where fans put your hand's, has come away, split, and has been peeled off by fans. It looks messy and pretty unsightly. I’ll take some pictures before the Gtr Manchester Derby ;-) next week.
 
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jrb said:
One thing I have noticed about the safe standing bars on SSL1, the blue plastic covering along the safe standing bars, where fans put your hand's, has come away, split, and has been peeled off by fans. It looks messy and pretty unsightly. I’ll take some pictures before the Gtr Manchester Derby ;-) next week.
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I agree, think they should have just been bare metal. The peeled plastic just looks a mess.
 
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A small niggle that I have is with the 2 end sections of perspex on the roof, 1 end seems to go straight from the outer edge and the other one from the inner edge.
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
Just seen the new Everton Stadium costs £750m.
52,000 seats. Brand new stadium

The North Stand expansion is £300m.
8,000 seats. Hotel & office block.

Seems we been have paid a premuim or Everton have had a great deal
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187.5m per stand in simple terms We get an extension, 401 room hotel, a commercial building and covered square for 1.6 times more Don’t think we have done too bad
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
Just seen the new Everton Stadium costs £750m.
52,000 seats. Brand new stadium

The North Stand expansion is £300m.
8,000 seats. Hotel & office block.

Seems we been have paid a premuim or Everton have had a great deal
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The South stand ext. was reported to have cost around £80m so it appears that the costs are weighted towards the hotel/museum/office construction rather than the stadium extension.
 
Gordyola said:
187.5m per stand in simple terms We get an extension, 401 room hotel, a commercial building and covered square for 1.6 times more Don’t think we have done too bad
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It is difficult to compare, and it will always look lot cheaper to build a new stadium than these expansions, seat for seat, as there are far more constraints.

It also depends what the Everton one included, the cost of the land and the infrastructure around the stadium would bump it up if included. Also either could be well over budget and we may not know for a while.

The most stark comparison is the Millenium and new Wembley, not a massive difference in time but one costing 6 times more than the other for not many more seats, although the spec was very different. Like St Marys costing £32m, different spec, very basic, like most of the Pride Park, Riverside, Sunderland etc basic neo-brutalist stadiums.
 
Corky said:
It is difficult to compare, and it will always look lot cheaper to build a new stadium than these expansions, seat for seat, as there are far more constraints.

It also depends what the Everton one included, the cost of the land and the infrastructure around the stadium would bump it up if included. Also either could be well over budget and we may not know for a while.

The most stark comparison is the Millenium and new Wembley, not a massive difference in time but one costing 6 times more than the other for not many more seats, although the spec was very different. Like St Marys costing £32m, different spec, very basic, like most of the Pride Park, Riverside, Sunderland etc basic neo-brutalist stadiums.
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Agreed 100%
I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek tbh
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
Just seen the new Everton Stadium costs £750m.
52,000 seats. Brand new stadium

The North Stand expansion is £300m.
8,000 seats. Hotel & office block.

Seems we been have paid a premuim or Everton have had a great deal
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Why? Do you know how much it costs to fit out a hotel & offices? Plus Everton built a stadium from scratch, which is far more cost effective than having to engineer around an existing stadium.
 
Man-chester copperpot said:
Just seen the new Everton Stadium costs £750m.
52,000 seats. Brand new stadium

The North Stand expansion is £300m.
8,000 seats. Hotel & office block.

Seems we been have paid a premuim or Everton have had a great deal
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Villa are expanding their north stand similar to us in terms of the seats expected to cost £100M planning permission just been approved
 
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