Villa Park Redevelopment

[Percy McCarthy]

I googled 53a Tame Road. Apparently it’s the most expensive property in the postcode, worth about £7m. It was last bought for £4.8m in 2018, and its value has increased by over half-a-million in the last month.

Is it the Academy do you think?

[Crown Hill]

That’s where it is in the map!

[Percy McCarthy]

That’s where it is in the map!

Haha, thanks! I haven’t got a fucking clue have I.

[Crown Hill]

That’s where it is in the map!

Haha, thanks! I haven’t got a fucking clue have I.

I did find out it was a Coal Meechants in 1962!

[Crown Hill]

It looks like all the land mentioned on both sides of Tame Road was purchased in 2018!

[PeterWithe]

  architects at Grimshaw have now been tasked with designing an expansion of the DE 

I hope that's the A level students, if they are just doing it on the O level course it will be shit.

[Percy McCarthy]

  architects at Grimshaw have now been tasked with designing an expansion of the DE 

I hope that's the A level students, if they are just doing it on the O level course it will be shit.

I went to Grimshaw’s sixth form… many times, to get off with the girls and rob the Kit-kat machine.

[London Villan]

I could see the lower being kept, but with a lot of work on the councourses, etc. I'd be amazed if the upper isn't pretty much completely replaced, it has so many problems.

A shell around the north was easier because it had all the old office space that could be repurposed, the DE is all squeezed into the smallest amount of space they could manage. It'll be interesting to see what the plans are for the gantry up there, I can't imagine it not getting a massive upgrade because it's very basic right now.

The stand was a bodge job, built on the cheap. If the land is available it would make sense to rebuild it and increase the capacity from 10500 to closer to 20,000 with modern facilities and premium spaces.

[algy]

I could see the lower being kept, but with a lot of work on the councourses, etc. I'd be amazed if the upper isn't pretty much completely replaced, it has so many problems.

A shell around the north was easier because it had all the old office space that could be repurposed, the DE is all squeezed into the smallest amount of space they could manage. It'll be interesting to see what the plans are for the gantry up there, I can't imagine it not getting a massive upgrade because it's very basic right now.

The stand was a bodge job, built on the cheap. If the land is available it would make sense to rebuild it and increase the capacity from 10500 to closer to 20,000 with modern facilities and premium spaces.

I don’t think it does make sense.

First we’d be playing in a 3 sided ground for a couple of seasons.

Second, a new build top of the range the stand is going to come with new build top of the range ticket prices. Prices that we’ve already seen that we can’t sell that many tickets at (GA+). To me it makes more sense for us to add 7k seats that are vaguely affordable to the people we’re trying to sell them to than 11k seats that aren’t.

Of course this might be invalidated by the 2028/9 season as we’ll have won 3 league titles on the bounce, a UEFA Cup, and a couple of Champions Leagues so will no doubt have attracted the typical hangers on and groupies that come with that territory

[tomd2103]

It would be a different job to the North I would imagine. The lower tier could probably be kept but the upper would surely have to go.

I wonder if they could keep the stand open and build the new bit behind and then finish the internal bits on a close season, similar to what Liverpool did?

That would probably be the hope.  It might just be speculation at the moment, but it's exciting stuff!

[Percy McCarthy]

It would be a different job to the North I would imagine. The lower tier could probably be kept but the upper would surely have to go.

I wonder if they could keep the stand open and build the new bit behind and then finish the internal bits on a close season, similar to what Liverpool did?

That would probably be the hope.  It might just be speculation at the moment, but it's exciting stuff!

My first hope would be the stand moving closer to the pitch.