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New Everton Stadium


Too many past false dawns but definitely got a good feeling with this one

There were reasons for this though, in the past we didn't have the money (couldn't find £30 million for Kings Dock FFS) and the 2nd time we were tied into a big commercial deal to help pay for it that was too easy for the government to call in.

Those reasons shouldn't exist this time around... Hopefully (we'll soon see if Farhad has the $$'s)
 

thestadiumbusiness.com/mobile#postDetail7201

Everton owner scopes out new stadium sites
2016-10-14
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Farhad Moshiri, Everton’s majority shareholder, is visiting two potential new stadium sites today (Friday) for the English Premier League football club.

Moshiri is visiting Bramley Moore dock, the club’s preferred option, as well as Stonebridge Cross in Croxteth.

Moshiri, a British-Iranian billionaire, and club chairman Bill Kenwright have been in talks with Peel Holdings, the owner of the dockland site, as well as Liverpool City Council. Peel Holdings is asking for £30m (€33m/$37m) for the site, according to the Guardian newspaper.

Peel Holdings received planning permission for a £5.5bn redevelopment project for the dock in 2012, not including a stadium, but construction work has yet to start.

Whereas the dock would require significant enabling works to take place before it could be considered suitable for a stadium, the Stonebridge Cross site is ready for construction work.

It has previously been reported that concrete plans about Everton’s future stadium could be made before the end of this year.

Everton currently plays at Goodison Park, which has a capacity of just under 40,000.
 
My hazy understanding of Peel is they've opposed a football stadium solution. I'm not 100% on that, maybe others can chip in who have more knowledge on the issue, but that is the chatter that's seemed to be there over us and them.

They had a potential stadium within the very first set of masterplans. The only reason they changed it was that they can make a better return on densely populated office and residential space. That hasn't happened for them though and they haven't had the level of interest they had originally hope for. Don't forget they have Wirral Waters to populate aswell. Now with the Pall Mall development, there is only so many Sq ft of office space that you can realistically sell in a market, certainly one in today's world. Truth be told, the market helps us as we can provide a level of certainty for Peel that they don't currently have outside of 3-4 developments underway on Liverpool waters. We can offer them that certainty, in the here and now. Peel are very keen to have us on board, and also believe that this is the start of the next 20 years of Liverpool Waters development as they hoped. If they weren't keen, then discussions wouldn't have gone on any where near as long as they have done.
 

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