Quay Park stadium for Auckland?
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@canefan said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@Auckman said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@canefan said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@MajorRage Auckland is a mess. Typically Kiwi that we have no cohesive plan for the city's sports grounds. We have a bunch of middling venues that serve similar purpose, but we don't have an international class cricket or rugby code ground
There are vested interests on Council who are fanatical Eden Park supporters. Yet one of the proposals (the sunken stadium one) proposes that the Eden Park Trust board is made the owners or majority shareholders of the new stadium (in exchange for selling off their land to pay for the new stadium). Nope, they still won’t budge. Eden park is their baby.
Hopeless situation. But I was not a fan of the sunken stadium. Put her under the water line and eventually she will leak
just putting this in here - leakage below sea level is not a problem. Most basements downtown do that. It's not a reason to oppose a sunken
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Fucking big basement though and adds significant cost and risk.
Seascape, which has just topped out this week, had a construction delay of one year while they sorted out basement leak (and other) issues.
As you say not a reason not to build it, but definitely a negative. Along with the land isn't available, the funding similar and they have underestimated the footprint required.
It's really Quay Park or EP, the other two are poor concepts and pie in sky proposals.
Personally I don't see why we need a roof in Auckland. In 60 years of attending events there I've really only suffered three really shitty downpours
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@dogmeat said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
Seascape, which has just topped out this week, had a construction delay of one year while they sorted out basement leak (and other) issues.
Diaphragm walls and a 5 storey basement. But yeah, any shit construction will cause you issues.
You know Britomart is below sea level right? And it gets easier as the shape changes from a trench to a sunken circle.
Agree it adds some cost and risk, but honestly in some ways easier than drilling in the basalt flows beneath Eden Park. That shit is hard and expensive to pile through. Waterfront (aside from old seawalls) is a lot easier.
Edit: changed secant to diaphragm. Totally different; early morning typing.
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@Duluth You're not wrong, but also, think 100 years into the future? Eden Park has, and will always be a hodge podge which falls short of being a truly elite venue because of its shape.
If they just build the new rectangular stadium, build a proper cricket ground, and everyone gets a much better viewing experience.
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@canefan said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@DaGrubster said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
She has been a few times. I haven’t had an invite thouhh😡. Been to Chelsea via her work a few times. Invited by her clients who are Chelsea fans and wedged up property owners.
When they had the AB xv vs baabass game there I sorted about 10 tickets for that game but it was not the same demand as a spurs match!
So, she certainly has her uses 😀
It's a hard road finding the perfect woman.... I'd never expect freebies, just access! 😀
Mrs Wombles company had a box at Stamford Bridge so goes when shes in the UK....i keep telling her they could get one at Plough Lane for much cheaper but apparently im the only one that thinks thats a good idea
@Auckman said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@canefan said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@MajorRage Auckland is a mess. Typically Kiwi that we have no cohesive plan for the city's sports grounds. We have a bunch of middling venues that serve similar purpose, but we don't have an international class cricket or rugby code ground
There are vested interests on Council who are fanatical Eden Park supporters. Yet one of the proposals (the sunken stadium one) proposes that the Eden Park Trust board is made the owners or majority shareholders of the new stadium (in exchange for selling off their land to pay for the new stadium). Nope, they still won’t budge. Eden park is their baby.
can you imagine how much they could make developing the eden park site for residential?....hundreds of millions
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The problem with the Eden Park replacement options are that the replacement options have been totally ridiculous.
A stadium on a wharf, a sunken stadium, a stadium on a footprint too small with roads and railways crisscrossing it.
No wonder they've stayed at EP. Which is a perfectly OK (rugby) stadium anyway.
The (huge) sale potential of EP likely wouldn't cover even the groundworks on those ridiculous options. And then 2 of the 3 would come with huge ongoing maintenance overheads.
If someone had recommended something feasible. Like Victoria Park. Then something might have happened.
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I like Eden Park (have some great memories watching games there, including the last AB loss on the ground), but I would be perfectly happy if they built a downtown stadium too. So, I'm not really adding anything to the debate.
But I'd hope the new one would be called Eden Park too.
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If you want fancy municipal baubles. Then you need a local government that has stamp duty.
E.g. An average of a 10k stamp duty on a house sale. For Auckland last year would have diverted about $200million per annum to the council. Away from banks, Real Estate Agents.
Better than an annual rates rise of 20% after you've paid that money to the RE Agents/Vendors and agreed to pay the bank interest on (a multiple of 5 to 6x) it for 20 to 30 years ...
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@Rapido $10k
stamp duty on our place in melbourne was $80k
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@Kiwiwomble said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@Rapido $10k
stamp duty on our place in melbourne was $80k
Yes, Average in NSW and VIc is both about 50k at moment.
That is a shedload of potential municipal funds that NZ instead diverts to mortgage interest to Australian banks or German cars for RE Agents.
You'd be loving it over there. All those tunnels, roads and stadiums needing civil engineering ....
You should come home. So you can engineer just the repairing of the broken pipes on the smell of an oily rag out of the rates base.
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@frugby said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
If they just build the new rectangular stadium, build a proper cricket ground, and everyone gets a much better viewing experience.
Rectangular stadia for rugby are top tier. Dunedin, Hamilton, North Harbour are excellent viewing experiences.
As an Aucklander it pains me to say it, but the Tron has the best combo of rugby and cricket grounds in the country ... and walking distance from (what's left of) their CBD.
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@Rapido said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@Kiwiwomble said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@Rapido $10k
stamp duty on our place in melbourne was $80k
Yes, Average in NSW and VIc is both about 50k at moment.
That is a shedload of potential municipal funds that NZ instead diverts to mortgage interest to Australian banks or German cars for RE Agents.
** You'd be loving it over there. All those tunnels, roads and stadiums needing civil engineering ....**
You should come home. So you can engineer just the repairing of the broken pipes on the smell of an oily rag out of the rates base.
keeping me employed
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@nzzp said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@frugby said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
If they just build the new rectangular stadium, build a proper cricket ground, and everyone gets a much better viewing experience.
Rectangular stadia for rugby are top tier. Dunedin, Hamilton, North Harbour are excellent viewing experiences.
You don't need a new ground for that
The proposals for new stadiums basically have three steps;
- Build a new moderate sized specialist cricket ground
- Build a new rectangular stadium
- Knock down Eden Park
I don't think many people disagree on step one. So why not:
- Build a new moderate sized specialist cricket ground
- Make Eden Park into a rectangular stadium by building a single new stand
That seems a lot more realistic and has the bonus of not throwing away a bunch of history
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@Duluth said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
Make Eden Park into a rectangular stadium by building a single new stand
Thing is, concerts are now the big money earner for EP. It ain't sports. 6 big concerts a year probably generates more revenue than all the sport that goes on.
So a rectangular stadium could decrease capacity for that ... probably not by much, but it would be a consideration
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@nzzp said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@Duluth said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
Make Eden Park into a rectangular stadium by building a single new stand
Thing is, concerts are now the big money earner for EP. It ain't sports. 6 big concerts a year probably generates more revenue than all the sport that goes on.
So a rectangular stadium could decrease capacity for that ... probably not by much, but it would be a consideration
If they'd built a stadium at Quay Park or Carlaw Park they could have had as many concerts as they liked....
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@Rapido said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@Kiwiwomble said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@Rapido $10k
stamp duty on our place in melbourne was $80k
Yes, Average in NSW and VIc is both about 50k at moment.
That is a shedload of potential municipal funds that NZ instead diverts to mortgage interest to Australian banks or German cars for RE Agents.
You'd be loving it over there. All those tunnels, roads and stadiums needing civil engineering ....
You should come home. So you can engineer just the repairing of the broken pipes on the smell of an oily rag out of the rates base.
Bro, it's not all roses over here, unlike most cities where piston wristed gibbons drive 4 wheel drives they don't need, in NSW roading budgets appear not to include maintenance, so they're actually a sound investment.
But you do feel quite futuristic being the one car driving in the new Westconnex tunnels before taking up a second job later that week to pay the tolls.
