Villa Park Redevelopment

[Dante Lavelli]

There’s been nothing from the club at all, in fact exactly the opposite but people still go banging on about it until they start to believe it with zero evidence

True but you’ll buy a cluster of warehouses a helluva lot cheaper if you pretended your business is distribution rather than Villa wanting to build a massive stadium.

Most developers buy the land under some JV / shell company. That protects them if it goes tits up and keeps any deal less newsworthy.

[pauliewalnuts]

Seeing as the club view the ground as a Heritage Asset it also tells you their mindset as it relates to Villa Park. No such thing as never, but I imagine under the current ownership and manager moving from Villa Park would be a hard as it stands. It’s more than just a ground. We know, they know it and everyone who visits knows it. Traditional grounds with incredible atmospheres caused by current fans and the spirits of the past are becoming reducing in numbers. Gone are the likes of Highbury, White Hart Lane, Goodson, Upton Park and Maine Road to be replaced by replica stadia build to drive revenues over that connection to loyal supporters. The challenges at Villa Park are well documented so I applaud efforts to upgrade where possible and keep us there.

I remember seeing Wes Edens a while back being interviewed about one of his other businesses and the interviewer asked him about Villa.

He said that they bought the club and didn’t really understand that they were also getting a historic stadium, and said it was “like discovering you just bought Fenway Park”.

In a good sense.

I’ve read people mention that he will want to replicate at Villa Park what he’s done at the Milwaukee Bucks. Whilst this sounds promising, I’ve no idea what that is. I assume it’s good?

Won the big netball trophy, pretty good!

[Percy McCarthy]

Seeing as the club view the ground as a Heritage Asset it also tells you their mindset as it relates to Villa Park. No such thing as never, but I imagine under the current ownership and manager moving from Villa Park would be a hard as it stands. It’s more than just a ground. We know, they know it and everyone who visits knows it. Traditional grounds with incredible atmospheres caused by current fans and the spirits of the past are becoming reducing in numbers. Gone are the likes of Highbury, White Hart Lane, Goodson, Upton Park and Maine Road to be replaced by replica stadia build to drive revenues over that connection to loyal supporters. The challenges at Villa Park are well documented so I applaud efforts to upgrade where possible and keep us there.

I remember seeing Wes Edens a while back being interviewed about one of his other businesses and the interviewer asked him about Villa.

He said that they bought the club and didn’t really understand that they were also getting a historic stadium, and said it was “like discovering you just bought Fenway Park”.

In a good sense.

I’ve read people mention that he will want to replicate at Villa Park what he’s done at the Milwaukee Bucks. Whilst this sounds promising, I’ve no idea what that is. I assume it’s good?

Won the big netball trophy, pretty good!

Oh yes, I was aware of their netball prowess, I followed the finals. (It was in the middle of the night, and I was ‘working’).

I meant their arena. I’ve looked it up and discovered they built a new one, with lots of development around it.