| Birmingham City’s New Stadium 07:26 - Oct 27 with 3068 views | Churchman |
Birmingham’s owners really are ambitious and clearly have very deep pockets. They are planning for a 62,000 stadium that will enable other sporting events like NFL to be held.
https://talksport.com/football/3679177/birmingham-city-new-stadium-design-chimne
They are confident they can fill it for Birmingham’s games and given the size of Birmingham I’m guessing they might be right.
The big question for me is what happens if they are not? Will they be playing in a soulless half empty stadium MK Dons style?
Still, I can see where they are going in terms of multi-usage, future proofing, taking the club forward. It’s very ambitious and for them very exciting.
That brings us back to ITFC. There’s no way we could do anything like that and nor would I like to see it. With a limit to the catchment area and its location an empty stadium would benefit nobody. But assuming plans to redevelop Portman Rd haven’t gone in the bin yet (given radio silence from the owners who knows), my question is what would people like to see?
I think the ideas that have bounced around (West Stand extension then a new East Stand) are reasonable with a max capacity of say 35,000 and facilities that can easily hold concerts, conferencing, events. But is that financially viable? If not would anything make it so?
Thoughts? |  | | |  |
| Birmingham City’s New Stadium on 21:36 - Oct 27 with 156 views | bournemouthblue |
| Birmingham City’s New Stadium on 15:31 - Oct 27 by LA_Tractor_Boy |
I know designs etc haven't been released, but I'm curious about how the club intend to add 4k seats to the West Stand.
Obviously the roof will be replaced and I suspect more lounges will be added, but are the club considering adding a fourth tier or extending the existing third tier? |
It would be interesting to see their plans on it |  |
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| Birmingham City’s New Stadium on 22:30 - Oct 27 with 115 views | Bluespeed225 |
| Birmingham City’s New Stadium on 10:44 - Oct 27 by Guthrum |
Problem with Suffolk is that, apart from Ipswich itself, the county lacks communication links towards London. It's either A12 in the coastal zone or A11/M11 from the far west. The A14 is a good spine east-west, but it's a long way round if you're coming from somewhere like Bury.
As for the train, it's the rattler all the way to Cambridge or Ipswich before you can change (unless you're in Sudbury and I don't know what that line is like).
Thus most of Suffolk is more shielded from people fleeing London house prices than the Essex coastal strip and maybe the Newmarket area. |
Interesting that you call the Cambridge train 'the rattler'! I had to take it to Ely from Liverpool St a couple of weekends ago when the cable got nicked at Shenfield. I felt sea sick by Cambridge! WTF is going on there? Made the Ippo to Liverpool St seem like it's floating on clouds! |  | | |
| Birmingham City’s New Stadium on 00:23 - Oct 28 with 54 views | bournemouthblue |
| Birmingham City’s New Stadium on 13:32 - Oct 27 by TheBoyBlue |
I think 35,000 for us would be about right, but the important thing for generating money would be making Portman Road somewhere that could be used 365 days a year for club, commerce and community. I guess therefore it needs to be set up for concerts (which as we've seen it already is), conferences, hotel, that sort of thing. Although they will hopefully be speaking to people with more expertise on such matters than me! |
I have seen 40k mooted as a number on here in relation to FIFA/UEFA requirements for potential tournaments
It feels about our top shelf | |
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| Birmingham City’s New Stadium on 00:35 - Oct 28 with 32 views | urbanpenguin |
They don't have deep enough pockets for anything designed by Heatherwick Studio. It's a mad choice, though tempered a bit by the fact they are forced to partner with a firm that actually know what they are doing.
I am pretty sure that whatever renders get released for the stadium will not at all look like what it is when finished, and Heatherwick will be quietly dropped in less than a year. As he was at Fulham and at countless projects where clients just want headlines and shiny renders before getting people in who are grown ups. |  | | |
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