Any updates on the proposed development for the collar site? DiscoveryPartners.com are working with the club on a new destination experience/museum attraction and I'm wondering how this will be integrated into the future development. I would imagine this would also perhaps incorporate an expanded retail outlet along with bars/restaurants to be open throughout the week. If it's going to be on the scale of the All Blacks Experience they are currently working on (opening 2017) it should be pretty stunning.
Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread
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Do we want that? I'm a Rugby fan, so I'd love to see more of it up here, but I wouldn't want us sharing the same pitch with any regularity.
mancity dan
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Or could there be another stadium being built for Rugby?
Where? Why? I think we can rule that out to be honest.
mancity dan
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The Collar Site is huge. It may not happen straight away, but I wouldn't rule out another stadium being built.
There's a couple of trampoline parks (trampoline parks are like buses...) heading to the area. Although oldish news, the fact that one might be built next to Asda is interesting. Whether it will be built inside the store (taking over the end clothes section) or a new build...I don't know. The other one (referenced in the below article) will be situated behind the stadium in an old warehouse/tin shed:
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http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/northwest/148892-trampoline-park-lined-east-manchester/
TRAMPOLINE PARK LINED UP FOR EAST MANCHESTER
A vacant industrial unit near Manchester City's Etihad Stadium could soon be converted into a large trampoline park aimed at families, students, corporate clients and fitness fans.
The site is also subject to a rival planning application to build up to 340 homes although the team behind the trampoline proposal claim it would not jeopardise the residential scheme.
Go Air (Franchise) has submitted an application to Manchester City Council to change the use of Block 4, which has a floor area of 37,120 sq ft, to the north east of the stadium and the Sportcity complex into a trampoline park. There would also be a café serving healthy food and drink and 75 parking spaces at the site, which is located at Riverpark Trading Estate on Riverpark Road...
...The Go Air statement reveals that Manchester City Council advised the application should only be for a temporary period of three years because there was concern that a longer timeframe could jeopardise other development proposals for the wider site, especially the 340-home scheme....
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http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/northwest/148892-trampoline-park-lined-east-manchester/
Still a special project GX? And have you been away? Thought you might have got drunk, leaked a bit too much info and ended up bundled into the back of a van...
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Concerts can still be held next summer if they start in the new year , but not the summer after.
It isn't part of the collar site plans as they currently exist, but the Eastlands Regeneration Framework document adopted in 2011 suggests that the athletics stadium on the west side of the main stadium could potentially be removed to make way for commercial development. Were this to happen, a replacement facility would have to be built, and the ERF suggests that the Beswick Sports Hub would be the likeliest location for this. It's possible, I suppose, that if there's a desire for RU in/around the Campus at that stage, they could create a multi-purpose stadium with movable seating that would host club rugby in the winter and athletics in summer, as happens at the Copthall Stadium in Barnet, which is home to Saracens.
The fairly newly reconstituted Manchester Rangers RL side currently plays at the athletics stadium, but I believe that's a temporary arrangement. They're due to move to the new speedway stadium at Belle Vue when that opens.
given_is_ironman
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Union?! No thanks! Keep the Magic Weekend here yeah, but not those kick and clap idiots.
But why?
It would have to be 50,000+ for the RFU to use it, and they aren't going to just build a stadium for the RFU to use once a year and leave it empty the rest of the time. What sport team would play in another stadium? Why would we want them there?
There is no conceivable reason why another big stadium would be built. It's as likely as us building another CFA just because "The collar site is huge!"
Possibly another community stadium could pop up a la the CFA Stadium, but nothing that would have any interest to the RFU.
Talking of Belle Vue Rangers - who played on the pitch in the middle of the old speedway track - I watched a youth international(soccer) in the early 1950's.
Cannot remember the score but I unearthed this clip of England playing in France in 1949.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/football-england-v-france/query/Johnny
Some of the players looked familiar - but could the No. 8 have been Johnny Haynes of Fulham.
Just curious
Cannot remember the score but I unearthed this clip of England playing in France in 1949.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/football-england-v-france/query/Johnny
Some of the players looked familiar - but could the No. 8 have been Johnny Haynes of Fulham.
Just curious
From what I understand any future partnership with the RFU would use the Etihad and existing facilities nothing more, nothing less.
A couple of games a season would use the main stadium and games below the first 15 would use the Campus 7ker.
For those who dont know the UAE has a long history of RFU in the Emirate itself, with Harlequins. http://abudhabiquins.com/
A couple of games a season would use the main stadium and games below the first 15 would use the Campus 7ker.
For those who dont know the UAE has a long history of RFU in the Emirate itself, with Harlequins. http://abudhabiquins.com/
HelloCity
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If they use the Academy the egg is ending up on Ashton New Road!
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Are there any season ticket holders in these rows? If there are they'd obviously be notified when the work is going to be done and I'm guessing if that was going to be soon then they'd already know
its a Barm
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That would be me 232 back row I phoned and asked the question in the close season to ask should I move now to south stand level3 as I don't want to be stuck with nowhere to go, there are 4 of us Sat together, I was told no imminent plans, make of that what you like, would not be surprised to see it started next summer, but leaves us in the shit with nowhere to go, well anywhere decent.
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People underestimate the amount of enabling weeks needed before works can start. There was a service raceway built around the original stadium perimeter before the commonwealth games. That will need diverting first and I can envisage that starting in April or maybe slightly earlier. The works would then progress over 16 months to complete works in September 17. I think these are the likely timescales.
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Would the underground tunnel for the coaches and players cars etc cause any problems for the enabling work ?
HelloCity
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At least we now know why they haven't put a big badge up on the new stand yet.
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