Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[WRicko]

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If you look at the pictures, they match up. I agree with your points.

The site is not big enough to match either Wembley or King's Cross; the development of Holt Town will help with the residential part.

Hopefully, with Holt Town, they copy what has happened with the Elephant & Castle part of London



Looking at the framework documents for East Manchester, the Council wanted the Ehihad Campus to have an entertainment district with a cinema, etc

For the site to become a 365 destination, it requires improved transport links to support it.

With the COOP live opening up, that opens the door to more hotels and restaurants(2). Just look at any UK arena; they typically have hotels and restaurants nearby.

The old gas holder site at the top of Mercer Way would be the perfect site for a Transport Hub, which features multi-storey car parks

Number 3 looks like a smaller arena or convention centre, or it could be a COSM, the new Imerserve sports theatre

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Number 3 is also a square with buildings surrounding it. Number 4 could be anything

Hopefully, they will announce something shortly, and it will be something fun, as you said @WRicko

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I have been to business expo in Blackpool at Preston in very poor venues and they still manage to get 100s of visitors. I don’t think many hotels are set up for these events anymore where the priority is rooms and facilities for the day to day. NEC and southern venues seems to get all the big stuff Coventry was a good venue to be fair. Must be a gap in the market for something similar to NEC focused on business rather than concerts in Manchester. Don’t know how big it could be presume would have to be a lot smaller than NEC

 

[WRicko]

There won't be any residential blocks on the collar site, they want a 24/7 destination whatever that may entail. All around the site, yes, just not on it.

I never said there would in fact I was saying the opposite

 

[WRicko]

Ha!

United’s new stadium is nothing more then a pipe dream atm, and there’s no guarantee it will even be built in time for the Women’s World Cup, but BBC United are pushing it in their headline.

Of course, City’s 62,000 seater stadium, with a 401 room, 4* hotel, connect to the Etihad, onsite parking for 1000’s of cars, on site hospitality on the Collar site and Etihad Campus, and the Coop Live Arena, suitable for other uses on a match day, only get’s a mention in the list of stadiums put forward, which will be accessed and reduced down by FIFA officials. Not to mention the CFA across the road for teams to use.

Women's World Cup 2035: New Old Trafford stadium on list of host venues

Manchester United's proposed new Old Trafford stadium is one of 22 venues named in the UK's bid to host the 2035 Women's World Cup.

www.bbc.co.uk

Wonder how you approve so many venues that are not even built ?

 

[jrb]

There won't be any residential blocks on the collar site, they want a 24/7 destination whatever that may entail. All around the site, yes, just not on it.

TBF, we don’t know yet. Outside of the club and the people working on the Collar site proposal in secret, we don’t know what is planned. Highly unlikely, as you say, but there could be housing/apartments built on part of the Collar site? Hopefully we’ll find out after the North stand expansion has been completed?

 

[Centurions]

I never said there would in fact I was saying the opposite

I was agreeing with you bud.

 

[Centurions]

TBF, we don’t know yet. Outside of the club and the people working on the Collar site proposal in secret, we don’t know what is planned. Highly unlikely, as you say, but there could be housing/apartments built on part of the Collar site? Hopefully we’ll find out after the North stand expansion has been completed?

Never say never I guess, but I can't see it myself. The site is fairly compact and it's stated aim has always been as a 24/7 destination, I'm presuming the other mooted hotel will occupy part of it. There's plenty of other housing and residential developments going on around the area.