Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[Fat Chance]

I seem to recall City spent a lot of dough on that square-section of land between the canal and the road into the car park....presumably the arena wont be broaching the road

 

[worsleyweb]

Where the small purple, silver, and green circle massing building is?

Any news on the Collar site land, or the proposed MMU Institute of Sport?

Hiya mate - yes there. Do you think that would hold 20,000 plus? Would have to go underground maybe? or build over the car park access road? I could have sworn last week someone posted a puma sign in the seats but I have just been to the stadium and there is no puma in the seats!

 

[jrb]

Hiya mate - yes there. Do you think that would hold 20,000 plus? Would have to go underground maybe? or build over the car park access road? I could have sworn last week someone posted a puma sign in the seats but I have just been to the stadium and there is no puma in the seats!

Looks a bit tight, especially with the Metrolink tracks running alongside it, but it looks like that parcel of land is big enough. The Arena would probably have to be vertical on all for sides, and boxed shaped, to fit into that parcel of land, rather than something spectacular. Saying that, Architects can pretty much design any type of building to fit into a restricted site. What do you think?

Took a few aerial picture’s of the site and of the MEN Arena from Google images as a rough comparison.

 

[Fat Chance]

Looks a bit tight, especially with the Metrolink tracks running alongside

Thought the metro link tracks were collar site side of the canal

 

[jrb]

Sorry, yes! :-/

 

[sweenyuk]

looking at that I would imagine access road will be moved and part of existing car park built on

 

[lancs blue]

looking at that I would imagine access road will be moved and part of existing car park built on

Possibly utilise the entrance near the gasholder for traffic rather than just pedestrians as it is currently.

 

[Fat Chance]

Seem to recall that 40 storeys could be sited on the square section of ground in question (perhaps that was also inclusive of the collar site area) ....so advanced was the engineering/concrete work driven below the depth of existing mineshafts.

 

[gkmcfc]

Few things happening. There will be a bar area - a bit like a pub feel in the south East Corner under the shite roof area - ready for the Chelsea game - is a like a semi corporate experience. This will add 100 seats to the Capacity as well. Also the arena will be going on land on the right hand side of the Campus as you cross the bridge walking towards the gasometer. Sounds like that will happen before the expansion to the ground. Keen to develop the area and surroundings and footfall of the site before the stadium for now.

There has also been a storage area built in the South West Corner.

All looking very clean. Pitch and new City seats look great.

My only beef with this is it means I'm unlikely to be able to buy anymore season cards anytime soon unless the club release more seasoncards for purchase. That's a huge disappointment for my daughter who is dying to get a seasoncard now!

 

[nmc]

My only beef with this is it means I'm unlikely to be able to buy anymore season cards anytime soon unless the club release more seasoncards for purchase. That's a huge disappointment for my daughter who is dying to get a seasoncard now!

There’s always a turnover of seasoncards - I think around 10 per cent don’t renew - so if you put your daughter on the waiting list - she will get one relatively quickly.