Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[jrb]

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set from last night, including the 3 already posted.(can't be bothered to remove them)

The quality isn't great. Camera phone.

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[jrb]

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Very interesting snippet from Manchester Confidential.

During the business breakfast, Smith also went on to discuss the impact of Abu Dhabi's acquisition of Manchester City FC and the knock-on effects for East Manchester.

Smith said it was 'a pivotal moment' in the history of Manchester.

"We have found an owner who is totally committed to the regeneration of East Manchester," said Smith. “They have got a value base that is so in sync with the city council, they are committed to the community and ensuring they are a fantastic neighbour and they recognise that challenges are still there in respect of education, health and employment and things that they have a responsibility to help change.

“They bought the club in September 2008 and we made an approach to them in the October to build their training centre in East Manchester and they went with it. The relationship has gone from strength to strength and it has led them to investing £1bn to transform the residential market in that area of the city.

“An announcement before Christmas will be testament to Abu Dhabi's belief in Manchester.”

Council Boss: 'Graphene Is The New Cotton'

Council's director of strategic development, Eddie Smith, talks wonder materials and Abu Dhabi

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/Property-and-Business/Council-Chief-Graphene-Is-The-New-Cotton-Eddie-Smith-In-Conversation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk ... nversation</a>

The video is here. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.slaterheelis.co.uk/news/latest-news/conversation-event/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.slaterheelis.co.uk/news/late ... ion-event/</a>

Wonder if it's about the Collar site/Etihad Campus, or Manchester Life?

 

[fbloke]

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I personally wouldn't get too hopeful about any Collar site or indeed MCFC related announcements pre-Xmas.

It seems to me that the statement was carefully and specifically worded to big up the partnership between Abu Dhabi and Manchester not MCFC and MCC

My money would be on a call-centre or similar with a few hundred jobs for local people or perhaps further inward investment in property around the City, perhaps the airport development.

I would dearly like it to be City related and Collar Site specific but am not holding my breath on that :-(

 

[cleavers]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Threa

I personally wouldn't get too hopeful about any Collar site or indeed MCFC related announcements pre-Xmas.

It seems to me that the statement was carefully and specifically worded to big up the partnership between Abu Dhabi and Manchester not MCFC and MCC

My money would be on a call-centre or similar with a few hundred jobs for local people or perhaps further inward investment in property around the City, perhaps the airport development.

I would dearly like it to be City related and Collar Site specific but am not holding my breath on that :-(

Whether or not it is "MCFC related" directly or not, the link is the important thing, because any further investment in East Manchester, is "MCFC related", because without MCFC its doubtful there would be any investment. For me any further investment is important, as it just strengthens the ties between the club, Manchester, and Abu Dhabi, and that can't be a bad thing.

Its far better than "creating" a few more shares to sell, just so that you have some cash to do your christmas shopping, like some other near Manchester club.

Looking forward to hear whatever announcement is made, as their commitment to Manchester, is further commitment to MCFC.

 

[Marvin]

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Is the steelwork largely complete now? What's next, the roof?

 

[nmc]

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I'm starting to doubt whether the Sheik really is getting bored. I suspect he might hang around for a couple more years. No doubt we are a contingency incase his shopping mall business runs into trouble.

 

[Chippy_boy]

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I'm starting to doubt whether the Sheik really is getting bored. I suspect he might hang around for a couple more years. No doubt we are a contingency incase his shopping mall business runs into trouble.

Perhaps what the stadium expansion is all about? When it's finished, if we still can't get out of the CL group stages, he can just put a roof over the thing and turn it into an enormous Emirates-style shopping mall? Makes sense to me.

 

[Danny Hoekman]

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All the temporary fencing around the Academy being taken down this morning. It really looks complete and finished with it down.

 

[somapop]

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I personally wouldn't get too hopeful about any Collar site or indeed MCFC related announcements pre-Xmas.

It seems to me that the statement was carefully and specifically worded to big up the partnership between Abu Dhabi and Manchester not MCFC and MCC

My money would be on a call-centre or similar with a few hundred jobs for local people or perhaps further inward investment in property around the City, perhaps the airport development.

I would dearly like it to be City related and Collar Site specific but am not holding my breath on that :-(

Perhaps, but it seemed a little more loaded to me....the mentioning of 'pivotal moment in Manchester's history' seems to imply a bit of a statement rather than something lower key. Dunno.

Still, the CFA looks surreal. Only seems like yesterday that the old tyre place was selling it's wares on that corner...

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Threa

I personally wouldn't get too hopeful about any Collar site or indeed MCFC related announcements pre-Xmas.

It seems to me that the statement was carefully and specifically worded to big up the partnership between Abu Dhabi and Manchester not MCFC and MCC

My money would be on a call-centre or similar with a few hundred jobs for local people or perhaps further inward investment in property around the City, perhaps the airport development.

I would dearly like it to be City related and Collar Site specific but am not holding my breath on that :-(

Whether or not it is "MCFC related" directly or not, the link is the important thing, because any further investment in East Manchester, is "MCFC related", because without MCFC its doubtful there would be any investment. For me any further investment is important, as it just strengthens the ties between the club, Manchester, and Abu Dhabi, and that can't be a bad thing.

Its far better than "creating" a few more shares to sell, just so that you have some cash to do your christmas shopping, like some other near Manchester club.

Looking forward to hear whatever announcement is made, as their commitment to Manchester, is further commitment to MCFC.

City had potential to be a very investable club for a while but Manchester too has had potential to be a very investable city for a good while. I think the Sheikh and his companies will have pinpointed Manchester for investment before he thought about taking over City but when the opportunity arose to get involved with us he jumped at the chance because it was a way to get his foot in the door with the city. With the vast amount of space we have, even in inner-city Manchester, around the city to build on and earn money from there may well be quite a lot of things going on with Abu Dhabi (and many other investors) in the coming decades.

Manchester has made the top 40 list for most invested in cities in the world, recently. I think that's only going to grow. I think HS2 is a shame for the city and the North in general because i think it's there to take our talent South, out of the city to work in London. I think High Speed should have had Manchester as a central base with links to Liverpool Sheffield and Leeds, instead of to that bloody London, but that's not going to happen for decades. But even so i think Manchester is only going to break the top 25 most invested cities in the world in the coming years. Exciting times!