Looks very exciting and £350 million is definitely not doing it on the cheap. I continue to have faith that Manchester can support two big arenas, as well.
Incidentally, I saw a few 'woe is me' posts (not on here) after the industry press suggested that BAM had won the role of main contractor and would sign a contract worth £150 million. These naysayers were suggesting that, after initial talk of £300 million to be spent on the project, such news constituted a scaling back of the project. Not so, and the view was based on a serious misapprehension of the nature of a project such as this. The main contractor is the biggest player involved in terms of the volume of work and the fees it earns, but you have all kinds of other players involved as well, such as architects, engineers, project managers and lawyers, among others. There are lots of additional costs, and a project in which £150 million goes to your general contractor will cost a hell of a lot more than that in total, as Mr Leiweke's words suggest.