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Robbiepope

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So, so very sexy.

It was my first visit to the new stadium/shop today and it looked lovely. It gave me another stark reminder though about the area. In the space of a five minute walk up the high street to Sainsbury’s where I parked I was approached twice for money and someone threw some kinda liquid out of their window (presumably at me). I was with my 3 year old.
 

markiespurs

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It's all very frustrating when a company like Mace or subcontractors responsible for whatever is wrong cannot give an estimate of when the fault can be rectified , like taking your car to a garage and them saying could take 6 months to fix the fault but don't hold us to it.

I’d be surprised if Mace or the subcontractors have’nt given an estimate of when the fault will be sorted.

The problem is that the club clearly no longer trust any time estimates given by Mace or the subcontractors, having been let down at least twice already.
 

slartibartfast

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It was my first visit to the new stadium/shop today and it looked lovely. It gave me another stark reminder though about the area. In the space of a five minute walk up the high street to Sainsbury’s where I parked I was approached twice for money and someone threw some kinda liquid out of their window (presumably at me). I was with my 3 year old.
Nice area isnt it. Cant see why it needs redevelopment to be honest lol.
 

Hoopspur

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Nice area isnt it. Cant see why it needs redevelopment to be honest lol.
I don’t get this though. Create a ‘golden oasis’ in North London. That though will not do anything about Wood Green, Edmonton, Walthamstow etc. Apologies by the way to these areas, I wasn’t trying to diss these. Spurs is where it is and I’m sure this has been taken into consideration with the scheme. Maybe creeping regeneration will develop the perceived look and feel of the whole area but the new stadium cannot do that alone.
 

slartibartfast

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I don’t get this though. Create a ‘golden oasis’ in North London. That though will not do anything about WoodGreen, Edmonton, Walthamstow etc. Apologies by the way to these areas, I wasn’t trying to diss these. Spurs is where it is and I’m sure this has been taken into consideration with the scheme. Maybe creeping regeneration will develop the perceived look and feel of the whole area but the new stadium will not do that alone.
I dont get it either mate to be honest.
 

spursfast

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It was my first visit to the new stadium/shop today and it looked lovely. It gave me another stark reminder though about the area. In the space of a five minute walk up the high street to Sainsbury’s where I parked I was approached twice for money and someone threw some kinda liquid out of their window (presumably at me). I was with my 3 year old.
so sorry to hear this...
 

coys200

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I don’t get this though. Create a ‘golden oasis’ in North London. That though will not do anything about Wood Green, Edmonton, Walthamstow etc. Apologies by the way to these areas, I wasn’t trying to diss these. Spurs is where it is and I’m sure this has been taken into consideration with the scheme. Maybe creeping regeneration will develop the perceived look and feel of the whole area but the new stadium cannot do that alone.

Makes a 4/5 star hotel even more bizarre. But Levy isn’t an idiot, he must know something we don’t.
 

Saoirse

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Makes a 4/5 star hotel even more bizarre. But Levy isn’t an idiot, he must know something we don’t.
Gentrification. We're talking about an area that already has good links to Liverpool Street, and decent ones to Stratford. In ~15 years or so it'll get a big boost from being on Crossrail 2. Housing is still relatively affordable by insane London standards so it's likely to become attractive to more people e.g. young professionals and new families, while the poor are slowly but surely being forced away from the area by rising prices, stagnating wages and benefit cuts. There's a political impetus post-riots and any "development" there led by a London Mayor is likely to be a rare feel-good story for them to talk about. So long as the housing bubble doesn't burst it's near-inevitable and the hotel makes a lot of sense. And as a bonus, if the bubble were to suddenly pop it'd likely be a consequence of some sort of Brexit disaster which will become apparent relatively soon - before construction begins, so plans could be adapted. But the vision I'm sure is for Tottenham to be the next Shoreditch.
 

Drink!Drink!

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Another internal via ssc, not sure how recent

https://streamable.com/r3h7b

Takes me back to the issue of somewhere to sit with your expanded food and drink options. How can they expect people to turn up very early, or leave quite a while after the end of the game if there is nowhere to sit? If you were with your 80 year old father with dodgy knees, it’s not practically possible.
 

Phischy

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Another internal via ssc, not sure how recent

https://streamable.com/r3h7b

Takes me back to the issue of somewhere to sit with your expanded food and drink options. How can they expect people to turn up very early, or leave quite a while after the end of the game if there is nowhere to sit? If you were with your 80 year old father with dodgy knees, it’s not practically possible.
If my memory serves, as I've not been this season, Wembley doesn't have seats in the GA concourse areas either. Maybe there will be areas which have them, but perhaps what they expect you to do is take stuff to your seat inside the bowl?! The trouble is, you don't really want to encourage people to get comfortable out in the concourse, especially since it'd be impossible to include enough seating for everyone that'd want it. So your 80 year old father would still lose out because 9 times out of 10 he'd probably be beaten to the handful of seats, meaning the next gripe would be 'why isn't there enough seating'... when, in reality, there is exactly enough seats for everyone in the stadium (just not in the concourse)!
 

coys200

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I did deliberate whether to post. But at least it’s documented so he can be judged be fake or real in the end. People can take from it what they will.

 

WalkerboyUK

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I did deliberate whether to post. But at least it’s documented so he can be judged be fake or real in the end. People can take from it what they will.



I could have posted that, doesn't make me ITK on it... Throw enough shit and eventually something will stick.
 

Drink!Drink!

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If my memory serves, as I've not been this season, Wembley doesn't have seats in the GA concourse areas either. Maybe there will be areas which have them, but perhaps what they expect you to do is take stuff to your seat inside the bowl?! The trouble is, you don't really want to encourage people to get comfortable out in the concourse, especially since it'd be impossible to include enough seating for everyone that'd want it. So your 80 year old father would still lose out because 9 times out of 10 he'd probably be beaten to the handful of seats, meaning the next gripe would be 'why isn't there enough seating'... when, in reality, there is exactly enough seats for everyone in the stadium (just not in the concourse)!

I suspect not wanting the concourses to be blocked up is a genuine issue. But then, this is a wholly new build, with a new design. How was the objective of making it a desirable location to want to hang around after the game built into the design? At the moment it isn't clear to me exactly what they mean by wanting people to stay after the game. Where will they go...and yes if they need to sit where will they sit. They can't mean after the game, go to a food place, then take the food back to your seat in the actual ground to admire the ground staff replacing some divots?

I am hoping, although not really expecting, that maybe as all stands are connected internally that there might be an area somewhere which does have seating.
 

chrissivad

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I suspect not wanting the concourses to be blocked up is a genuine issue. But then, this is a wholly new build, with a new design. How was the objective of making it a desirable location to want to hang around after the game built into the design? At the moment it isn't clear to me exactly what they mean by wanting people to stay after the game. Where will they go...and yes if they need to sit where will they sit. They can't mean after the game, go to a food place, then take the food back to your seat in the actual ground to admire the ground staff replacing some divots?

I am hoping, although not really expecting, that maybe as all stands are connected internally that there might be an area somewhere which does have seating.

Wouldn't they be used mainly for before kick off and at half time?
Get through as many customers as possible in a short time.

Won't we also have restaurants parts of the ground as well? That will be where they want people to go after the game
 

Breezer

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i apologise if this has already been discussed or if I’m in the wrong thread. But in regards to our south stand, do we have a supporters group who will arrange for large flags, banners etc to be present on match days or is it down to one individual who will hopefully come along with something.
 
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