Villa Park Redevelopment

[VILLA MOLE]

Does anybody else think the corner of the new North is bigger in the fresh video? It does say minor changes to the North, but maybe its memories playing tricks.

Very much looking forward to that behemoth sitting grandly opposite me in the years to come.

They did say they were going to try an utilise empty space at the corner of the Trinity road ?

[danno]

what's "the warehouse"? is that just a stripped back version of Villa Live?

I keep thinking Wacky Warehouse complete with slides and ball pit.

[Risso]

Villa Live/other developments will be carried out later as time goes on? Seems fair enough to me.

And if you believe that, I've got some magic beans for sale.

[VillaTim]

what's "the warehouse"? is that just a stripped back version of Villa Live?

I keep thinking Wacky Warehouse complete with slides and ball pit.

with a Harvester bolted on next door for good measure

[Brazilian Villain]

To be fair, The Warehouse is a much better name than Villa Live for me, and it ties in with Birmingham being an industrial city.

Agreed, I wasn't keen on 'Villa Live' either. If nothing else, if you want to attract patrons from across the city it might be better to have a 'neutral' name.

I'm not sure 'The Warehouse at Villa Park" is the neutrality you were looking for!

Fair enough, I haven't read the detailed release yet, thought it was just 'The Warehouse'. Still think it's better than 'Villa Live' which conjured up images of a covers band comprised of players from our first team.

[Ads]

As long as the North is a big beastie, where the lower tier drowns the away support out, that'll do for me.

[Brazilian Villain]

As long as the North is a big beastie, where the lower tier drowns the away support out, that'll do for me.

Yes, that's the main thing.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Put a carvery in there it'll be packed every day

[chrisw1]

I'm not that bothered about Villa live.  I quite liked the idea of a box park type space but doubted it would get much use outside of match days.  If it's too expensive, shelve it, improve the catering elsewhere and move on.

[Ads]

This is the picture I'm referring to. It just seems bigger in the lower Trinity/North corner to me.

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[Dogtanian]

This is the picture I'm referring to. It just seems bigger in the lower Trinity/North corner to me.

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Isn't that an old picture from the previous press release? Because it has Cazoo everywhere and I can't see it on the new release.

[langleylions]

talking of redevelopments , take alook over at the noses forum SHA  , omg they are talking about hosting nfl games / nba / aquatics / velodrome all in their new 70k stadium funded by the council , 🤣🤣,  absolute retards the very last one of em ffs

[Risso]

This is the picture I'm referring to. It just seems bigger in the lower Trinity/North corner to me.

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It's exactly the same picture in both.

[Villan For Life]

talking of redevelopments , take alook over at the noses forum SHA  , omg they are talking about hosting nfl games / nba / aquatics / velodrome all in their new 70k stadium funded by the council , 🤣🤣,  absolute retards the very last one of em ffs

Take a look at the first page of the SHA thread from July 2009, they were saying the same thing then. This bloody council work so slowly....

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=33747.0

[Risso]

This bit doesn't sound like they're terribly far forward on the plans for the station. "The club are working closely with the West Midlands Combined Authority, West Midlands Rail Executive and Birmingham City Council to finalise a plan for the station. WMCA are commissioning a technical design study to support the process of unlocking funding to implement the proposed upgrades."

Great, the council are going to form a committee. Hope it gets built in my lifetime!