New Stadium Details And Discussions

[OmarsComing]

Spoke to Graham Roberts before the Arsenal game this weekend. He believed that the stadium building starts in 2014 and are finished in 2016. The last season we will play our games at wembley..

 

[OmarsComing]

Athletic Bilbao's new stadium

 

[Lilbaz]

Athletic Bilbao's new stadium

The old ones been knocked down then?

 

[OmarsComing]

 

[Lighty64]

Are we going to be dependent on naming rights as we once were? I'm sure the club will want to maximise naming rights revenue, of course, but the winners of the Premier league will get £100m this season and for the next few seasons until the next TV rights deal is agreed. If we manage to finish top four that'd be £90m+ as well as a potential £30m or so from the Champions league should we get in on top of £50m in matchday revenue. That's £170m a season! We could pay for a new stadium with two or three seasons worth of revenue. That's not even counting naming rights, shirt sponsorship, kit deals, other advertising. If we really go for it this season, and it looks like we are, we could end the season in a very promising position which would make us even more attractive to sponsors. Levy's priority this season must surely be raising the value of the Spurs brand.

please excuse me as I've not the knowledge as most on this site, but just going by those nomad scum doesn't the naming rights usually tie in with being the shirt sponsors too, so to increase the deal? if this is the case I prey we get a great sponsor that doesn't have any red in their logo.

I know when we 1st had that Thompson logo, a lot of people refused to buy the home shirt. if people are still in this view, then getting a big sponsor for naming rights could damage merchandise income which would offset income a little/LOT (obviously only my opinion).

just one other question out there please, i'm sure when I 1st read about us building the new stadium there was mention of a big car park close to the stadium, does anyone know if this has been removed? I only ask on a selfish point, as the only way I get to visit is by arriving at the moment 3 or more hours before KO, to be able to grab 1 of 8 parking places for blue badges in the car park opposite the Paxton Rd. Once this new stadium is built I would like to be able to still visit it, providing 1 I can get parked and 2 by then i'm still mobilish lol

 

[andyp8080]

is todays news a big delay? any thoughts anyone

will this thing ever be built??!?!?!?

 

[andyp8080]

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...signers-in-rethink-over-new-home-8801178.html

it says it related to an 'internal fit out'

surely that means now major changes to planning permission? Maybe ideas on how to increase the capacity?

 

[ohwhenthespurs]

The quote from KSS that Spurs are looking at other options and the one from Spurs that it just concerns an internal fit seem contradictory to me.
ANyway, as far as I'm concerned the current design is excellent and I'd be very wary of another design losing the closeness to the pitch, steepness of the stands and particularly the 'kop' end - and of course a further delay to construction.
However, I suppose, that is irrelevant until we secure naming rights funding. Until that happens, bugger all is going to get done, so speculation over dates for completion is exactly that, and impossible to predict until the money is in place.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...signers-in-rethink-over-new-home-8801178.html

it says it related to an 'internal fit out'

surely that means now major changes to planning permission? Maybe ideas on how to increase the capacity?

The quotation in the last line totally contradicts the rest of the article, which then re-reads as bullshit. As I posted a number of pages ago, it's commonplace to appoint one architect to design a development through the planning stage and then to appoint another architect to work with the contractors on the detailed scheme and to supervise the building process.

The entire article spins the story to make it sound as if we have abandoned KSS' proposal and are going to start again. Then the 'club spokesman' describes it as an 'internal refit', which might require a new planning application if the capacity is changed. Minor amendments to the existing planning consent could be required if there are alterations to the escape arrangements, the acoustic protection, the lighting or anything that affects anything outside the stadium.

But there's nothing that would suggest that the volume, massing, location, design of the external shell or exterior materials of the stadium are going to be altered significantly from KSS' design - the words 'internal refit' suggest the opposite - in which case it's much more likely to be that Populous have been appointed to turn KSS' sketch scheme into a buildable project and that this is not going to involve major revisions to the planning consent.

That would mean either that the article is knowingly false or that it was written before they managed to reach the 'club spokesman' and then they just left it as it was, despite the contradiction. I reckon it was the latter. They just couldn't be arsed to rewrite it, because then there would be no story.

 

[tototoner]

is todays news a big delay? any thoughts anyone

will this thing ever be built??!?!?!?

not while ENIC in charge

 

[SteveH]

not while ENIC in charge

what have you heard?

 

[absolute bobbins]

what have you heard?

Nothing

 

[SteveH]

is todays news a big delay? any thoughts anyone
will this thing ever be built??!?!?!?

not while ENIC in charge

what have you heard?

Nothing

So why did he say........?......... right so he made it up. Got ya

 

[dk-yid]

Athletic Bilbao's new stadium

I'm not sure I like that. It's gonna seem a bit empty in the away end.

 

[DiscoD1882]

we could have built this stadium by now. Now it looks like we will fall into the same trap as Arsenal and end up paying top dollar as the country comes out of recession and costs go up. i feel we have missed a real trick here.

 

[ShayLaB]

we could have built this stadium by now. Now it looks like we will fall into the same trap as Arsenal and end up paying top dollar as the country comes out of recession and costs go up. i feel we have missed a real trick here.

...or as we come out of recession we might find a bank willing to lend the money at a reasonable rate.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

*sigh*

*Holds head in hands*

 

[Achap]

we could have built this stadium by now. Now it looks like we will fall into the same trap as Arsenal and end up paying top dollar as the country comes out of recession and costs go up. i feel we have missed a real trick here.

The Club and their advisors are unlikely to miss a trick.

If you can see something obvious, it is highly probable that Levy has seen it too.

 

[dricha1]

we could have built this stadium by now. Now it looks like we will fall into the same trap as Arsenal and end up paying top dollar as the country comes out of recession and costs go up. i feel we have missed a real trick here.

Or the potential stadium sponsors have added a requirement for a stadium design rethink, I.e. more hospitality, bigger capacity?

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

The quotation in the last line totally contradicts the rest of the article, which then re-reads as bullshit. As I posted a number of pages ago, it's commonplace to appoint one architect to design a development through the planning stage and then to appoint another architect to work with the contractors on the detailed scheme and to supervise the building process.

The entire article spins the story to make it sound as if we have abandoned KSS' proposal and are going to start again. Then the 'club spokesman' describes it as an 'internal refit', which might require a new planning application if the capacity is changed. Minor amendments to the existing planning consent could be required if there are alterations to the escape arrangements, the acoustic protection, the lighting or anything that affects anything outside the stadium.

But there's nothing that would suggest that the volume, massing, location, design of the external shell or exterior materials of the stadium are going to be altered significantly from KSS' design - the words 'internal refit' suggest the opposite - in which case it's much more likely to be that Populous have been appointed to turn KSS' sketch scheme into a buildable project and that this is not going to involve major revisions to the planning consent.

That would mean either that the article is knowingly false or that it was written before they managed to reach the 'club spokesman' and then they just left it as it was, despite the contradiction. I reckon it was the latter. They just couldn't be arsed to rewrite it, because then there would be no story.

Haha - you're right. That quote at the end defeats the entire article.

Populous being appointed was discussed in this thread back in July - why is it breaking news now?