With Pro Logis having already built a huge warehouse, an events management company is building its HO on that site also, no longer enough space to build the 10,000 stadium as will have to be a substantial amount of car parking also.
With Pro Logis having already built a huge warehouse, an events management company is building its HO on that site also, no longer enough space to build the 10,000 stadium as will have to be a substantial amount of car parking also.
an events management company? isnt that what otium are??
just a thought
an events management company? isnt that what otium are??
just a thought
an events management company? isnt that what otium are??
just a thought
http://www.eventmagazine.co.uk/Business/article/1176666/Freeman-expands-Europe-SO-Group-purchase/
http://www.cvent.com/rfp/dallas-ser...ice-650b3dad9ad74b5cb6c93e77e739f6cb_167.aspx
this might help with some background on freemans who are building their HQ at ryton, expecting to employ 360 people
Project was announced on CWR this morning
I work in the logistics game, the type of customer going into that site will be a 24/7 operation won't be able to share employee car parking space and no chance for H&S purposes would allow fans on the yards where the HGVs operate. I drive past this site every day once you build a big office and their associated car parking won't be able to fit a stadium plus parking like Shrewsbury on the remaining land.
Next stop Baginton a much bigger development not practical for fans but could be their next option, Brandon & Warwick Uni not a chance. Keresley & J2 M6 possibly.
J2 where the Erickson office is as for Keresley you are right not much left around there to go for.
Baginton would be awful,difficult to get to with chaotic traffic on kamikaze islan, ideal site inside the city would be courtaulds but no way would that be allowed to happen even if CCC don't stop it I'm sure the government would for no other reason that there is an existing adequate facility a few miles away
Well if they did fancy an area near bagington the "kamikaze island" is having roadworks (building the a45 to go under the island) so hopefully would be ok but I am not sure where it would go around there.
Problem would be with Baginton is all the traffic would be using the A45 junction, or down Rowley Road into Baginton. I think even with the A45 improvements just those two junctions wouldn't be enough to disperse the traffic.
I work in the logistics game, the type of customer going into that site will be a 24/7 operation won't be able to share employee car parking space and no chance for H&S purposes would allow fans on the yards where the HGVs operate. I drive past this site every day once you build a big office and their associated car parking won't be able to fit a stadium plus parking like Shrewsbury on the remaining land.
Next stop Baginton a much bigger development not practical for fans but could be their next option, Brandon & Warwick Uni not a chance. Keresley & J2 M6 possibly.
It'll be Ansty or nowhere IMO. On another note is this normal or is Coventry undergoing some kind of development rennessaince?
I think it's just the two universities bearing some fruit possibly. The problem is though that it's the City Centre that requires jobs to accelerate regeneration.
Well Warwick Uni has never wanted anything to do with Coventry.
I think we need a complete rethink on City Centers. Shopping and work are more diverse now. Should be a civic centre, maybe start with putting the stadium there? (aaand we're back on topic!)
I agree, our forward thinking council though is obsessed by retail.
J2 where the Erickson office is as for Keresley you are right not much left around there to go for.
Baginton would be awful,difficult to get to with chaotic traffic on kamikaze islan, ideal site inside the city would be courtaulds but no way would that be allowed to happen even if CCC don't stop it I'm sure the government would for no other reason that there is an existing adequate facility a few miles away
There isn't going to be a new stadium.
Edit: this is controversial. But I think our "famous" indoor market shoots itself in the foot too. Get rid of the roof, open it up so people actually wander past and are drawn in.
Judging by the conversations here so far - it'll be dawning on a few just how stupid this whole idea of a new stadium is.
If, and a massive if, it ever gets built, it'll be off the beaten track, a hike for anyone. It won't be part of our Coventry community. Isolated is a word I'd choose. No friendly pubs to sink a pint before the game, not pedestrian friendly etc etc. It won't really be in Coventry will it.
I'm not a great fan of the Ricoh, I know I'm not alone in that. It too is in the wrong place. Highfield Road was central. In the community. If we had purchased housing around the ground (like Liverpool are doing) it would have allowed for development. And we would have had a neat 30,000 ground, fit for the next 50 years. Where thousands of people could have walked to.
All water under the bridge I know. But it saddens me to have missed that opportunity.
Having said that - with further development around the Ricoh, maybe a few more bars and cafes, right by it, it might feel better. At least it is in Coventry (just).
These other sites are remote. Perhaps something for those inside Sixfields to ponder this Sunday? Do you really want to support owners who will do this?
The viable sites that us mere mortals are aware of seem to be disappearing fast. If they are serous about moving back and building a new ground now is the time to tell us.
I still think they are holding out hoping ACL have cash flow problems and they can get hold of they Ricoh on the cheap, otherwise I can't see us moving back to Coventry
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