Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[blue for life]

Gary Neville praises City’s owners for investing in East Manchester.

Then he goes on criticize the Glazers for not doing something similar around Old Trafford.

Click on the link below for the article.

Speaking at MIPIM, Gary Neville praised the work of Manchester City FC’s owners in redeveloping large areas of East Manchester and said he expected Manchester United’s new owner to take a similar approach.

“They invested in an area that needed it,” he said. “It was an area nobody ever really went before and that takes real courage,” he said.

“If you said to any developer in Manchester in 2007, invest a billion pounds in this area over the next 10 years, they wouldn’t be putting their hand up.”

Since taking over the club, Manchester City’s owner, Abu Dhabi United Group, has developed a new training ground for the club as well as a significant amount of housing in East Manchester through Manchester Life joint venture with the city council.

The Co-op Live arena is currently under construction, while plans were recently unveiled to expand the Etihad Stadium and develop a fan park.
“We need someone to buy the club and do basically what Manchester City have done.”

MIPIM | Neville calls for United’s next owner to ‘do what Man City did’ - Place North West

While the Glazer family assesses bids for Manchester United, the club’s former captain has laid down a challenge to whoever takes over: regenerate the area around Old Trafford.

www.placenorthwest.co.uk

Basically copy us! Who would have think it 20 years ago!

 

[jrb]

Basically copy us! Who would have think it 20 years ago!

The Qataris could do that, but they’d be a decade behind us.

There’s enough land at the back of OT to build a brand new stadium, etc.

There’s a huge civic proposal to create tree lined boulevards in the area, and a Processional route to Old Trafford.

The Qataris could back the proposal financially.

https://democratic.trafford.gov.uk/documents/s35460/CQ%20Appendix%201%20-%20Trafford%20Civic%20Quarter%20AAP%20Draft%20Regulation%2018.pdf

 

[jrb]

Digger ripping up the tarmac outside the East stand entrance. Just the top layer of tarmac atm. Not very deep. Don’t think it’s anything to get excited about. Pictures tomorrow.

 

[jrb]

Cream/white exterior cladding has been fixed at ground level on to the full length of the arena on Joe Mercer Way. I hope it weathers well. Cladding shown on this CGI.

 

[bluesmith]

Went on the Open Doors event today. Sadly there was no tour inside the arena. The group of people on the Open Doors event was too big for that. I’ve put my name down for any future tour of the inside of the arena with a smaller group of of people. However, I did get some decent shots of the arena from the viewing platform opposite the arena. Also wrote down a few interesting snippets from the presentation. I’ll post the pictures and snippets tomorrow. Thanks to the Bam staff for hosting the Open Doors event.

Did they give you a practical completion date?

July 24.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Cream/white exterior cladding has been fixed at ground level on to the full length of the arena on Joe Mercer Way. I hope it weathers well. Cladding shown on this CGI.

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It’s gonna look like a liquorice allsort :)

 

[jrb]

Did they give you a practical completion date?

July 24.

No.

As posted earlier, there have been delays due to various reasons.

They’re hoping to complete on schedule, but they may have to open the arena with the main areas completed, and other less important back areas (rooms, etc) unfinished and completed whilst the arena is open. Think it’s pretty fluid atm, so it could go either way. Lot’s of other info. Will post as much as I wrote down tomorrow.

 

[bluesmith]

No.

As posted earlier, there have been delays due to various reasons.

They’re hoping to complete on schedule, but they may have to open the arena with the main areas completed, and other less important back areas (rooms, etc) unfinished and completed whilst the arena is open. Think it’s pretty fluid atm, so it could go either way. Lot’s of other info. Will post as much as I wrote down tomorrow.

I'd take any info with a pinch of salt then. There is no chance whatsoever of achieving PC on schedule. July 24 is far more Likely than December 23. Although I think OVG may have a soft opening ahead of PC with limited capacity and lots of fire stewards.

 

[Asa's left peg]

I can imagine that Qataris putting money in for development but Radcliffe feels like a slippery character like the glazers.

 

[Snape]

Here are some photos from the Open Doors event at the Arena today.
BAM did metion they did not tender for the North Stand development and that it was likely that Laing O’Rouke would construct it.

 

[bluesmith]

Here are some photos from the Open Doors event at the Arena today.
BAM did metion they did not tender for the North Stand development and that it was likely that Laing O’Rouke would construct it.

Laings doing the extention and another doing the hotel

 

[jrb]

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[levets]

Not sure the timing is great for that.

There was a time in the 90s when Manchester Giants were playing some home games at what was then called The Nynex Arena and getting crowds upto about 15,000.

These days I think it’s a big crowd if they scrape more than a few hundred.

Do you mean the Storm? They held the European record attendance at one time. Sure it was over 19,000 v Sheffield? I was at the game too. Not aware of the Giants getting such crowds, I didn’t like basketball.

 

[dadnlad]

Here are some photos from the Open Doors event at the Arena today.
BAM did metion they did not tender for the North Stand development and that it was likely that Laing O’Rouke would construct it.

bit of inside ;) O'Rouke do more concret construction where arena is steel or fabrication

 

[jrb]

Drone video showing the roof and the roof trusses. The last picture is the most up to date picture. The picture is slightly blurred. Not me. The person who flew the drone.

 

[hammersmithlad]

The Qataris could do that, but they’d be a decade behind us.

There’s enough land at the back of OT to build a brand new stadium, etc.

There’s a huge civic proposal to create tree lined boulevards in the area, and a Processional route to Old Trafford.

The Qataris could back the proposal financially.

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https://democratic.trafford.gov.uk/documents/s35460/CQ%20Appendix%201%20-%20Trafford%20Civic%20Quarter%20AAP%20Draft%20Regulation%2018.pdf

Apart from the constant & latest financial targeting on our beloved club, I do wonder if other club models are also thinking ahead regarding FFP changes & how income is generated.

Whilst we seem to have finally released an info pack on the proposed North stand expansion of the stadium it seems PSG are also on the same wavelength in increasing capacity at the Parc des Princes & of course at the same time increasing revenue to balance the books with these so called new FFP regs. However, since the Parc des Princes is based within a relatively populated area of Paris they’re naturally facing opposition to this & selling it entirely to the Qataris which would most likely enable them to have free-reign on any proposed stadium developments.

Looks like a game of poker with the mayor of Paris refusing to sell & PSG owners switching their attention to purchase the Stade de France situated in the north less affluent area of Paris.

https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/20...-to-quit-parc-des-princess-their-home-stadium

 

[jrb]

Views from the top of steel steps to the top porta-cabins. Soon to change for good.

Note the first cladding mockup on the ground. Saw that last year. Then the much taller and larger cladding mockup appeared next to the site entrance.

 

[jrb]

Views of the arena and the Etihad from the viewing platform.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Barça have a basketball department and a few others do. Real, Bayern, Monaco, Sporting, Benfica, Porto, Fenerbahçe, Olympiakos, Panathinaikos, Partizan Belgrade, and Red Star Belgrade all compete with them in the top-flight EuroLeague.

The sport isn’t as big as football in Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, etc but those clubs feel it’s worthwhile to compete in.

It will bring in a chunk of revenue for those clubs, just as the diversification around the Etihad with hotel, restaurant and shopping complex will do. CFG also owns shares in the Goals cage footie business

Why not add a basketball team to the ever-growing CFG monolith?

I’d rather have a rugby league team.