Villa Park Redevelopment

[The Edge]

Risso, keeping it real(tor).

The most irritating thing about Americanisms is how many of them are proper English.

I've noticed that some British Estate Agents now have their photo on the boards outside houses.
I only ever used to see that in the North American Colonies

There's a massive billboard on the junction of Victoria Rd and Trinity Rd with a picture of the father and son (I forget the name) but it's called something & son Realty. Just what is this obsession with Americanisms in our society?

[Rory]

Risso, keeping it real(tor).

The most irritating thing about Americanisms is how many of them are proper English.

I've noticed that some British Estate Agents now have their photo on the boards outside houses.
I only ever used to see that in the North American Colonies

There's a massive billboard on the junction of Victoria Rd and Trinity Rd with a picture of the father and son (I forget the name) but it's called something & son Realty. Just what is this obsession with Americanisms in our society?

I could care less.

[Dante Lavelli]

I might apply for a job at Core 5 so I can work on it.  Its a solid design team, especially Grimshaws (although I’ve not heard of David Smith engineers).  No sign of penny pinching with that lot of consultants.

[SoccerHQ]

The only faintly feasible location near town would be somewhere in the Gun Quarter. It’s pretty desolate and sparsely populated by industry. The Birmingham Wheels site is huge but the transport is shit and it’s quite a walk from town.

SHA actually tried to move to the Wheels site 20 years ago but can't remember why their application was turned down. Think the go karting circuit been sold now.

Really don't want to be moving there although we'd all finally be drinking in town I guess....

[Percy McCarthy]

The only faintly feasible location near town would be somewhere in the Gun Quarter. It’s pretty desolate and sparsely populated by industry. The Birmingham Wheels site is huge but the transport is shit and it’s quite a walk from town.

SHA actually tried to move to the Wheels site 20 years ago but can't remember why their application was turned down. Think the go karting circuit been sold now.

Really don't want to be moving there although we'd all finally be drinking in town I guess....

It was tied in with the casino which went to the NEC instead.

[ChicagoLion]

£1billion?

The North Stand is costing the best part of £100 million

So 4 stands is £400 million, I am struggling to find a piece of real estate in Birmingham for £600 million.

Not just 4 stands though, is it? There's the pitch, offices, shop, car park, other buildings. You've also got all the infrastructure underneath the stand.

I can quite well imagine a new ground would be approaching £1b.

I would love the project if they were prepared to pay £1billion for it.
Everton is costing £500 million and it’s next to water.
Of course if you get HS2 in, it would cost 10 billion.

[chrisw1]

£1billion?

The North Stand is costing the best part of £100 million

So 4 stands is £400 million, I am struggling to find a piece of real estate in Birmingham for £600 million.

Not just 4 stands though, is it? There's the pitch, offices, shop, car park, other buildings. You've also got all the infrastructure underneath the stand.

I can quite well imagine a new ground would be approaching £1b.

I would love the project if they were prepared to pay £1billion for it.
Everton is costing £500 million and it’s next to water.
Of course if you get HS2 in, it would cost 10 billion.

The Everton owner said total costs would be closer to £760m - for a 53k seater.

Spurs stadium cost £1b for 63k.  Construction started in 2015 and building costs are significantly higher, so to replicate that build would be far more now.

I'd imagine if we were building a new stadium (we're not) we'd want it to be 60k.  I'm not sure why you think with additional site assembly costs that Spurs did not have and massively inflated construction fees you think it's so ridiculous that a new stadium would be in the region of £1b.

[Ads]

Given the way BCC treat their social housing tenants, I'd be all behind sharking the motherless fucks for cheap real estate.

Just out of interest, when did 'real estate' start replacing 'land and 'property' in British Engerlish?
 
We didn't have this sort of thing back in the day.

If the phrase exists before the country, its not a said country-ism.

[Duncan Shaw]

If we ever did move, which I don't think we will, it would be out to the NEC surely, which would fit in with the easy for day trippers hospitality agenda.  Easy to drive/train and even fly into, lots of space for corporate areas, US style "tailgate" pre-match hospitality.  I could really see us going for that if we had someone who's track record was building a brand in US sports......

What gives me comfort is we wouldn't be going to this expense with the North stand if a move was on the agenda.

[Bad English]

Given the way BCC treat their social housing tenants, I'd be all behind sharking the motherless fucks for cheap real estate.

Just out of interest, when did 'real estate' start replacing 'land and 'property' in British Engerlish?
 
We didn't have this sort of thing back in the day.

If the phrase exists before the country, its not a said country-ism.

FFS! If the phrase is marked 'mainly North American English', and variants thereof, by lexicographers and in dictionaries, is used mainly by our simple cousins elsewhere, is one that was not used by speakers of proper English when I was growing up, then it is a phrase that I can moan about in UK English.

[Sexual Ealing]

I just want us all to get back to some form of normalcy.

[Ads]

I just want us all to get back to some form of normalcy.

That should be the aim this Fall for us all.

[Bad English]

We will, momentarily.

[pauliewalnuts]

I am prayerful that we will.

[Sexual Ealing]

Well let's not just sit around on our fannies, let's make this the winningest arena in soccer!