City purchase factory?

[Dubai Blue]

Just to give you an idea of the scale that these guys work on, this is Sports City in Dubai:

To understand the way they operate you have to think very, very big. Much bigger than would previoulsy have been thought possible.

When completed in 2011, Dubai Sports City will include:
a 60k multi-purpose stadium
a 25k cricket stadium
a 10k indoor arena
a 5k hockey stadium
an 18-hole Ernie Els golf course
an Olympic-sized swimming pool
an autodrome
indoor and outdoor karting tacks
a state-of-the art sports medicine and rehabilitation centre
a 25,000 sq ft high performance centre (fitness, gyms, etc)
international academies and training facilities for hockey, golf, football, rugby, cricket, tennis and swimming
a hospital
several international schools
thousands of residential units in villas and apartment towers
a shopping mall (300 outlets + hypermarket)

 

[baldybouncer]

Its the old Clayton Aniline site.

They'll all be growing 2 heads and extra fingers if they have to train on that site :)

 

[Chid]

Just to give you an idea of the scale that these guys work on, this is Sports City in Dubai:

To understand the way they operate you have to think very, very big. Much bigger than would previoulsy have been thought possible.

When completed in 2011, Dubai Sports City will include:
a 60k multi-purpose stadium
a 25k cricket stadium
a 10k indoor arena
a 5k hockey stadium
an 18-hole Ernie Els golf course
an Olympic-sized swimming pool
an autodrome
indoor and outdoor karting tacks
a state-of-the art sports medicine and rehabilitation centre
a 25,000 sq ft high performance centre (fitness, gyms, etc)
international academies and training facilities for hockey, golf, football, rugby, cricket, tennis and swimming
a hospital
several international schools
thousands of residential units in villas and apartment towers
a shopping mall (300 outlets + hypermarket)

Looks like Disneyland.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Peter Barnes on talkSPORT referred to intentions the club may have regarding increasing capacity at COMS only this morning. This got me thinking.......

England has put a bid in for the 2014 World Cup and as such, if the bid is successful, there is NO WAY our owners would want our ground to be excluded from hosting matches - especially as the Swamp is at present a bigger option and more viable to be chosen above COMS. Therefore the plan will be to extend COMS to 80k, also to build a state of the art complex on the Clayton Analine site featuring hotels etc which would make COMS THE BEST GROUND/FACILITY in the whole of England, thus pissing all over the Swamp and allowing us to be chosen as host City for all World Cup matches whilst the Swamp gets cock all. The trams will be in by then too.

This would enhance our reputation, piss the Rags off and elevate our leaders status to be God-like across the world.


Get in! :)

 

[Cambridgeblue]

We have already made several proposals to purchase COMS and surrounding land - the council have already been told that is they don's sell - we will move and build our own!

Strengthen the squad - strengthen the club - just one step at a time :)

I'm not sure how it works, but surely the council has to approve planning permission, which of course they won't(as it's not in their interests to),and we will then have to appeal against it almost like a runway to the high courts. Given the clubs poor public image right now, I can't see that helping the cause much at all, which returns us to square one and that's doing some kind of deal with the council now before we go down that route.

TBH I think a judicial review into any refusal of planning permission would go in MCFC's favour because of MCC's conflicted position. I also don't think it would really cause much in the way of bad publicity. The amount of money City are going to pump into the area if they built a new stadium (or extended the current one) and redeveloped the training ground would help revitalise a fairly poor area of manchester. The only thing we'd have to do is make sure that we're not too far away from the proposed metro station.

 

[Anonymous]

There is no way on God's earth that MCC will turn down the idea of Hundreds of millions of pounds of potential investment into East Manchester.It is one of their most important "regeneration" areas.
They simply can't afford to,for starters.
Remember the fuss they kicked up when the decison to axe the casino next to CoMs was taken?

Publicly,they may baulk at the idea of enormous Arab investment in infrastructure.The piper does indeed,always call the tune.
It raises some interesting "political" issues.


Privately,I suspect they would be dancing jigs of utter delight.

 

[Cambridgeblue]

Just to give you an idea of the scale that these guys work on, this is Sports City in Dubai:

To understand the way they operate you have to think very, very big. Much bigger than would previoulsy have been thought possible.

When completed in 2011, Dubai Sports City will include:
a 60k multi-purpose stadium
a 25k cricket stadium
a 10k indoor arena
a 5k hockey stadium
an 18-hole Ernie Els golf course
an Olympic-sized swimming pool
an autodrome
indoor and outdoor karting tacks
a state-of-the art sports medicine and rehabilitation centre
a 25,000 sq ft high performance centre (fitness, gyms, etc)
international academies and training facilities for hockey, golf, football, rugby, cricket, tennis and swimming
a hospital
several international schools
thousands of residential units in villas and apartment towers
a shopping mall (300 outlets + hypermarket)

Not if Hydra Properties are doing it... cos it'll look like this!

 

[Cambridgeblue]

Harrow had put the ground up for sale due to housing market flat.
Land has planning permission for houses already.

Hotel anyone??????(just rumour, to accommodate the day trppers)

Wife works for the firm that did all the ground work for the COMS and future Regeneration of surronding area.

Will ask her to do a bit of dogging.

Mate whatever you do in your spare time is fine... but can you also ask your wife to do some digging to see if she can get any more info? That is if she's not too busy with the dogging and all...

 

[youngblueeyes]

...and Harrow Estates are part of the Bridgemere Group which is (was?) owned by Steve Morgan, the owner of Wolves...

So maybe we can do the first player/land swap? We get the land, you get Danny Mills.

Then again...

 

[Berti-the-Blue]

Harrow estates are a company that buy contaminated land,clean it up and then sell it on to a building company to build houses nobody building new homes at the moment so maybe they have sold the cleaned up site to ADUG....