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New Everton Stadium

Yes, practically always cheaper. Often very much so. LFC got to 54k for £74m (£114m project cost). We're spending ten times that much (£750m) to get to 52k with less than one third the number of high-end box seats and roughly half the total corporate. That glaring disparity will only widen with their new stand.

"Quickness" simply depends on number of phases and how many people you put on the job. If they had done both phases at once with the bigger original contractor, they could've finished at the same time as the mainstand (which took just over 600 days)..... and of course it also depends on if or not the club or the builder goes bankcrupt/out of existence in the process. The builder going under is inconvenient, the club going under is a tad more catastrophic imo.

Reference: common sense and every stadium planning/ design guide and stadium redevelopment you care to mention.
 

Of course the decision is not just based on ticket revenue, lots of commercial things to consider and seems Everton will also take fans views on mid season move. My prefernece would be to finish the season at GP, a mid season move is very disruptive for the football club IMO. A summer to move over would be ideal.
Interesting article below, few months out of date but my understanding is all the points hold true and no decisons have been made yet.

The only thing that could keep us at Goodison is the Everton Da`s and sentimentality, ending any commercial contract at Goodison 6 months early will be massively outweighed by BMD commercial deals for endless years...

More hospitality, more tickets, more corporate... why have a new stadium you will spend £700m+ on to leave it empty for 6 months.

Straight off the bat you can sell x amount of thousand half season tickets.
 
The only thing that could keep us at Goodison is the Everton Da`s and sentimentality, ending any commercial contract at Goodison 6 months early will be massively outweighed by BMD commercial deals for endless years...

More hospitality, more tickets, more corporate... why have a new stadium you will spend £700m+ on to leave it empty for 6 months.

Straight off the bat you can sell x amount of thousand half season tickets.

It surely has to start paying for itself as soon as possible. Someone estimated that the interest on just the latest loans alone is over £30m pa. How much of the remaining total cost/debt at sale lands on the club on top of that at completion? How the new owners refinance that going forward is anyone's guess.

Perhaps that'll just be the "packaging period" for them to sell on to fresh owners with clean naming rights opportunities etc.
 

The only thing that could keep us at Goodison is the Everton Da`s and sentimentality, ending any commercial contract at Goodison 6 months early will be massively outweighed by BMD commercial deals for endless years...

More hospitality, more tickets, more corporate... why have a new stadium you will spend £700m+ on to leave it empty for 6 months.

Straight off the bat you can sell x amount of thousand half season tickets.

Think Kenwright's removal will be the biggest obstacle gone to moving during the season.
 
It’s all opinion and not sure what motivates for a delay tbh, I’m desperate to move in and want to asap regardless of the head ache from moving mid season. The most encouraging signs for me is seeing the landscaping being progressed at a very early stage, the roof lifts on the east stand took weeks on the west but went up very quickly this week. The west stand plaza steps seemed to have appeared overnight. I’m seeing progress all around the ground at a pace not witnessed todate and I haven’t seen them working round the clock or at weekends yet.
I’m sure there will be a decision soon to ramp up 🙏
 

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