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To break with the transfer non-activity monotony, may I bring up that other (monotonous?) subject of redeveloping Goodison.
I have a read through the two "proposals" set out by Ward McHugh Associates and TA Hughes which are available on-line on the KEIOC website and they both look sufficiently serious and plausible to me (although my knowledge of architecture and planning permission is zero) to deserve consideration. Is there any further information about these proposals?
The Hughes document goes into detail about crowd noise which is all very exciting and certainly deserves to be taken into account in a football ground design.
There is a question about the planning schedule on both proposals though. Particularly the Ward McHugh which demolishes and reconstructs each side of the ground over 4 seasons (optionally shortened to 3). The proposal includes a shift of the pitch at one point and one wonders how supporters at the "Church" end of the non-shifted Street End stands will be able to watch the match. But then that is just one detail.
Anyway I thought it all looked very exciting so the BIG question is: if I think it is exciting and feasible, what is it that I have missed that makes Bill & Co dismiss the proposals straight off?
(There is the housing repossession bit of course: but are the houses owned by the Council or the residents? Does does the council have any power to impose a repossession? They did it recently in the Edge Hill area near St Crispin's Church.)
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David Smith, Posted 12/06/2007 at 10:59:48
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And I add a further question : how can Tesco make MORE money (their motivation surely) by spending tens of millions on a stadium for EFC plus all the retail park compared to simply spending a tenth of that amount on a mere retail park ?
If however it does become owned by Everton, i would like to say that BK has actually found someone who is willing to invest in the club in a favorable way, ie BK retains ownership and somebody forks out millions for him, i do think there will be significant sponsorship rights going Tescos way for signifacantly less than the going market rate however of this does happen.
From what I can recall from the local media, Tesco had attempted to build a supermarket there before, on the site of the old Tetley Walker brewery. By helping to finance the stadium, they found a lot less opposition to the concept of building a supermarket there as well. I suspect similar motivations are at play here - not sponsorship necessarily as much as securing planning consent for a store. I wonder if Tesco owns the land or not.
Maybe its been said before but how about using Anfield once the reds move out and then redevelop Goodison.
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We've been told it may one day collapse and we're warned of the cost of annually painting steel girders in order to prevent toxic fumes filling the Goodison air. Eventually the CEO admitted that Goodison Park could indeed be redeveloped. Contradicting all that had been said previously. A simple admission that Goodison Park won't be redeveloped due to our inability to cough up the required readies would've been more acceptable ? and a lot closer to the truth of the matter, instead of spinning nonsense about the ground.