North Stand Construction Discussion

[LeroyChickenSane]

That seems to be the way to do it these days - it's what they've done at Anfield. Enables you to avoid disruption to existing operations and then just tie things together in the closed season.

It's a great idea to reduce impact on capacity, but if this is the case, we're getting a 3rd tier bolted on if that 2nd tier stays the same because the 2nd tier as one is supposed to have a steeper rake than the 1st?

 

[supercity88]

It's a great idea to reduce impact on capacity, but if this is the case, we're getting a 3rd tier bolted on if that 2nd tier stays the same because the 2nd tier as one is supposed to have a steeper rake than the 1st?

Very true, they'll probably re-work the 2nd tier to tie in as well and look to do that in a closed season as well. Would just mean ripping things out and replacing on a new alignment.

 

[LeroyChickenSane]

hopefully they could complete that over a summer. It might mean no summer gigs though....

 

[Gordyola]

Very true, they'll probably re-work the 2nd tier to tie in as well and look to do that in a closed season as well. Would just mean ripping things out and replacing on a new alignment.

More likely it will have two angles

 

[HelloCity]

More likely it will have two angles

I wonder how they’re getting 2k extra seats over the 5.5k seats in the SS third tier? This expansion is said to have 7.7k seats by comparison.

The expansion needs to finish at the exact same point as the SS third tier so the old cable net can come in between the top of the stand and the roof.

If we look at this diagram below, then if they develop a new section attached to the current NS second tier, then it will have to be quite steep to finish up in the right spot. Not only that but we’ll lose the overhang a third tier would have which has around 4 rows.

This is why I’m wondering if they’re actually going to replace the current 2nd tier entirely to create something at a better angle because otherwise I’m struggling to see where the extra seats are coming from unless they makes the gaps between rows smaller.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Might be no link whatsoever but I'm even more convinced we'll be proven not guilty by the prem league when a story like this appears. Surely if we were even remotely concerned with these alleged charges the club wouldn't announce this potential capacity upgrade?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I understand all that, but imagine there is no match on, and no gigs taking place, and everything is locked up for the night. You've pretty much got McDonalds or Asda.

How does a hotel like that compete with the 50 or so hotels in Manchester City center, where you can step off the train and walk to your hotel. You can and have a meal in a restaurant, go to a bar with work colleagues? Or go clubbing or shopping.

Put it this way, if someone I knew wanted to book a hotel in Manchester for a weekend. I wouldn't send them out there, Iooking out over an empty car park, having to get a taxi to go out. And not everybody is a football fan.

I have stayed at Milton Keynes dons hotel and Bolton Wanderers with work, and they were like a ghost town after 6pm. If getting a taxi is your ultimate solution to this, then why not just book one of the plethora of hotels that are actually where you want to be in the first place?

Although, if a hotel was built that didn't block the view of the stadium, it wouldn't bother me. Let it sit there empty most of the time, but rammed for matches and gigs.

There are hotels in Belle Vue and Gorton. I’m sure one at Etihad Campus will do just fine.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

There are hotels in Belle Vue and Gorton. I’m sure one at Etihad Campus will do just fine.

Probably worth pointing out how quickly Ancoats and New Islington has and is developing, what the markers for the outskirts of the trendier parts of that part of the city are, and where we'll be in ~5 years. By my reckoning Hope Mill Theatre is about 10 mins away, Cloudwater about 13 mins, and the very Amsterdam feeling waterside bars in NI about 15 min that you'll be able to walk via the canal from Eastlands.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

The blue wall.

 

[jrb]

Just been having a look through LinkedIn.

Put Etihad Stadium, Manchester into search and it brings up numerous events, meetings, conferences, seminars, etc, inside and outside the ground during the week.