Villa Park Redevelopment

[Risso]

Personally I think it’s very telling that there appears to be not one of them with any emotional attachment to St Andrews! It s all just ‘Yay The Vile will be rattled!’

It's all they care about. If by some miracle, they were ever in a position whereby winning a game would make them win the league, but losing would send us down instead, the vast majority of them would choose the latter.

[Chris Harte]

Saw a Facebook post earlier where one of their lot was rather laughably comparing the footprint of the Wheels site with that of Tottenham Hotspur stadium.

Personally, I suspect they'll use it as a coach park, only for it to be invaded by travellers. Once the dispersal order is applied, they'll leave but not before they put a curse on the place.

[pauliewalnuts]

I am sure on smallheathalliance.com tomorrow, in their match thread (for our game), they'll all be talking about this almost as much as they are about our match.

[Jean Quereue-Quereue]

Scrolled half a dozen pages for news but nothing.  Anyways... Building magazine did an analysis of building a 6000 capacity stand.  They made it £115M but the figure excludes VAT (zero-rated for new building materials) and professional fees.  Adding those on, and taking a bit off for economies of scale I'd say new North Stand would cost £175M or so.

[AlexAlexCropley]

How much for the super duper Wheels stadium do you reckon?

[Chris Harte]

Blimey. I'm sure Herbert built* the stand that now has his name for £5m in 1994. Bloody inflation.

* I realise it was only initially the upper tier. The rebuild of the lower tier would have added to the original cost.

[Jean Quereue-Quereue]

Blimey. I'm sure Herbert built* the stand that now has his name for £5m in 1994. Bloody inflation.

* I realise it was only initially the upper tier. The rebuild of the lower tier would have added to the original cost.

The main costs in the study are walls, roof, mechanical and electrical.  Trades costs are more expensive now.

[PeterWithesShin]

I know it was a while ago now but the Sunderland ground cost a total of £23m, and that includes the 7k expansion to a 49k capacity.

[Brend'Watkins]

Building materials like everything else have seen massive increases since Covid and before that Brexit. I couldn’t believe what I had to pay for 500ml of Crown paint some white spirit and a tube of caulk at Wickes  earlier today.

[VILLA MOLE]

It pretty much means it isn’t worth developing unless you can guarantee it all goes to corporate at about £200 a pop ?

[Brazilian Villain]

It pretty much means it isn’t worth developing unless you can guarantee it all goes to corporate at about £200 a pop ?

You haven't done corporate, have you?

[VILLA MOLE]

It pretty much means it isn’t worth developing unless you can guarantee it all goes to corporate at about £200 a pop ?

You haven't done corporate, have you?

I had 4 years at Chelsea for work sadly. ,  i guess it depends on the levels of corporate and yes £200 would be a minimum Semi corporate they would be looking for per head

[VillaTim]

It pretty much means it isn’t worth developing unless you can guarantee it all goes to corporate at about £200 a pop ?

You haven't done corporate, have you?

82 lounge tomorrow is circa £350 per person . The lions / directors restaurant circa £450/500 pp

[Brazilian Villain]

I had 4 years at Chelsea for work sadly. ,  i guess it depends on the levels of corporate and yes £200 would be a minimum Semi corporate they would be looking for per head

Absolutely. If the Jasper Carrott Suite is £370 a game at the Sty, I'd imagine it would be significantly more for corporate in a new North Stand.

[amfy]

Depends what league you’re in of course! We occasionally go for hospitality at Preston and it’s less than £400 for 4 of us! It’s pretty good too! Similar at Villa is about £300 each!

God knows how they charge that at Blues - I’ve been in their suites for events and they’re nowhere near as nice as at Deepdale!