who says that the club dont monitor fan forums .............hi Danny boy
Who knows what the price of the stadium build really is (Levy I suppose), but the original figure bandied about of £400mil from a few years back has to inaccurate now, and surely that figure would have included the land grab costs and other costs that have now been paid. If the club are aiming for almost zero debt then the construction figure still to pay must be much lower now.
That €40mil loan might well represent a much higher percentage of the remaining construction costs than 10%. Considering we have been almost break-even on transfers in recent years it's likely that we have been paying down the debt with any spare cash we had.
My sense is that financing is not really an issue. For that matter, that single CPO hold-out doesn't seem like a significant impediment either. I think at this point its simply about logistics, timing and choreography. I don't think there are any serious blockages any more.
Yeah - I remember perhaps £250m is the stadium and £400m is the overall cost. The £250m figure was given because that was how much building the same stadium at the Olympic sight was going to cost us. The extra £150m was for the land purchases and all the infrastructure improvements we have to do as part of getting planning permission. A lot of this will already have been paid for (property purchasing of the Wingate has been going on for more than a decade and the major's office are picking up a lot of the associated costs as their shush money for the OS fiasco).
May he was pre-emptively warning you...
if the club are granted the CPO, they anticipate going out to tender for construction late this year.
Why not tomorrow, next week, next month even? Why at the end of the year? Another waste of 8 months!
Why not tomorrow, next week, next month even? Why at the end of the year? Another waste of 8 months!
We haven't got planning permission for the revised design/increased capacity.
Thought we were given to understand the redesign was not that substantial and would therefore not need to go through the planning process again.:-k
Didn't realise I had, Infact I never did.
The club has unofficially claimed that Populous are only working on minor changes to the interior elements of the stadium. But that's probably because they don't want to reveal their hand at this stage. They will apply for new planning consent, if required, only when the new design has been completed.
This is a friend of a friend anecdote, so take as many pinches of salt as you think necessary.
A mate of mine met one of the new architects at a party recently. He said that the original design was ditched because it was not distinctive enough and too similar to the Emirates. I'd take from this that there is going to be a pretty substantial redesign.
They've considered skinning the building.
What does that mean? Is it keeping the underlying design/architecture/engineering, but just slinging a superficial cladding of some kind on top to give it a distinctive look?
Yes.
What I was told was that there was a feeling that the previous design was a bit off the shelf and very similar to stuff that the architects had done for other clients before. The club want something that is more distinctive, presumably in part because that may attract a higher naming rights deal.