Stadium of Canterbury
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It must be hard to make the numbers stack up for a decent stadium though.
I mean look at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. It's awesome, but not huge at 52,000. But it's used all year between the Reds; the Broncos; and the Roar. Then at least one Wallaby test, at least one Origin, and then other events like the full NRL round there in May. Then you add to that every big concert tour that comes to Aus for at least one night, if not two. And it services a Brisbane population of 2.1M people
What can you offer in Christchurch? A quarter of the population, less games, and less events, attended by less people.
That's a hard equation to put together.
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@Chris-B Lancaster Park was insured for $143 million apparently, and the Council are currently putting in $253 million plus some level of ongoing operating costs. Central gov't are putting in $220 million plus $90 million already spent on the land.
A major reason for the roof besides the obvious weather-proofing, I gather, is NIMBYism - basically, to minimise noise 'leakage' if we attract concerts.
Agree that it should be 30,000 + 5,000 temporary seating, but probably doesn't need to be bigger than that any time soon.
Additional costs of the seats after building the facility are presumably any additional debt servicing, maintenance/replacement (still have to maintain and replace the additional seats and other facilities e.g. gates from time to time), lighting during games (lights will be designed for the size of the stands whether full or not).
An obvious issue with building it is that Dunedin's stadium will see less use as one suspects that at least some of the concerts and games it would have hosted would be in Christchurch instead.
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Godder raises good points re light and noise issues. For a moment I panicked and thought an open stadium on the site might be too close to significant residential areas (apartments in this case) but mostly it’ll be bordered by other commercial developments and only one future slum (part of the East Frame I think). So probably not a big deal.
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@Godder said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@Chris-B Lancaster Park was insured for $143 million apparently, and the Council are currently putting in $253 million plus some level of ongoing operating costs. Central gov't are putting in $220 million plus $90 million already spent on the land.
A major reason for the roof besides the obvious weather-proofing, I gather, is NIMBYism - basically, to minimise noise 'leakage' if we attract concerts.
Agree that it should be 30,000 + 5,000 temporary seating, but probably doesn't need to be bigger than that any time soon.
Additional costs of the seats after building the facility are presumably any additional debt servicing, maintenance/replacement (still have to maintain and replace the additional seats and other facilities e.g. gates from time to time), lighting during games (lights will be designed for the size of the stands whether full or not).
An obvious issue with building it is that Dunedin's stadium will see less use as one suspects that at least some of the concerts and games it would have hosted would be in Christchurch instead.
Am I reading right? They are spending $700 million on a stadium with a 25,000 capacity?
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@Kirwan said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@Godder said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@Chris-B Lancaster Park was insured for $143 million apparently, and the Council are currently putting in $253 million plus some level of ongoing operating costs. Central gov't are putting in $220 million plus $90 million already spent on the land.
A major reason for the roof besides the obvious weather-proofing, I gather, is NIMBYism - basically, to minimise noise 'leakage' if we attract concerts.
Agree that it should be 30,000 + 5,000 temporary seating, but probably doesn't need to be bigger than that any time soon.
Additional costs of the seats after building the facility are presumably any additional debt servicing, maintenance/replacement (still have to maintain and replace the additional seats and other facilities e.g. gates from time to time), lighting during games (lights will be designed for the size of the stands whether full or not).
An obvious issue with building it is that Dunedin's stadium will see less use as one suspects that at least some of the concerts and games it would have hosted would be in Christchurch instead.
Am I reading right? They are spending $700 million on a stadium with a 25,000 capacity?
The CCC's $243m includes the $143m insurabce recovery. They're then using $220m of the recovery fund the Govt contributed. Total $463m which is already down on the initial estimate of $500m for a MUA. This is another reason why I think we'll end up with a small, barely functional eyesore.
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@Kirwan said in Stadium of Canterbury:
Am I reading right? They are spending $700 million on a stadium with a 25,000 capacity?
That's only $30k or so a seat. Only need to return 2-3k/year per seat (over operating costs) to make it worthwhile. So that's only $150 - $200 per event per seat for 10-15 events over and above operating costs to generate a return.
So, yeah.
By comparison, the Cake Tin cost $130M in 2000 dollars to build. Only 3-4 orders of magnitude higher, with 2/3 the seats... what could possibly go wrong?
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@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
The CCC's $243m includes the $143m insurabce recovery. They're then using $220m of the recovery fund the Govt contributed. Total $463m which is already down on the initial estimate of $500m for a MUA. This is another reason why I think we'll end up with a small, barely functional eyesore.
I don't think they got the full $143M. Another reason why insurance is such a frustrating thing to deal with. Loss adjustors can slap on a coat of paint and call it 'fixed'.
*The council had Lancaster Park insured for $143m and believed it was damaged beyond repair so it was therefore entitled to get the full amount, but Civic disputed that.
It said three loss adjustment firms each determined the stadium could be restored for less than $50m.*
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@nzzp insurance companies are massive, massive fluffybunnies.
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@mariner4life said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@nzzp insurance companies are massive, massive fluffybunnies.
I want to like this 100 times
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@nzzp said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
The CCC's $243m includes the $143m insurabce recovery. They're then using $220m of the recovery fund the Govt contributed. Total $463m which is already down on the initial estimate of $500m for a MUA. This is another reason why I think we'll end up with a small, barely functional eyesore.
I don't think they got the full $143M. Another reason why insurance is such a frustrating thing to deal with. Loss adjustors can slap on a coat of paint and call it 'fixed'.
*The council had Lancaster Park insured for $143m and believed it was damaged beyond repair so it was therefore entitled to get the full amount, but Civic disputed that.
It said three loss adjustment firms each determined the stadium could be restored for less than $50m.*
Perhaps they should do that, and hold the directors of the insurance company criminally responsible for anybody that gets killed in the stadium for the next earthquake.
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@mariner4life said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@nzzp insurance companies are massive, massive fluffybunnies.
What's interesting is how different they can be. People with some knowledge of the behind the scenes ... it would (should) affect how you choose the company you deal with.
It's like travel insurance. Lowest cost cover may not mean best cover if you need it
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@Kirwan said in Stadium of Canterbury:
Perhaps they should do that, and hold the directors of the insurance company criminally responsible for anybody that gets killed in the stadium for the next earthquake.
they'll just point at the engineers. It's always someone else's fault ... same as ACC -- they just argue it's the doctors who say most of teh damage was 'pre existing'
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@Kirwan said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@nzzp said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
The CCC's $243m includes the $143m insurabce recovery. They're then using $220m of the recovery fund the Govt contributed. Total $463m which is already down on the initial estimate of $500m for a MUA. This is another reason why I think we'll end up with a small, barely functional eyesore.
I don't think they got the full $143M. Another reason why insurance is such a frustrating thing to deal with. Loss adjustors can slap on a coat of paint and call it 'fixed'.
*The council had Lancaster Park insured for $143m and believed it was damaged beyond repair so it was therefore entitled to get the full amount, but Civic disputed that.
It said three loss adjustment firms each determined the stadium could be restored for less than $50m.*
Perhaps they should do that, and hold the directors of the insurance company criminally responsible for anybody that gets killed in the stadium for the next earthquake.
And make the insurance company liable for cost overruns as a result of construction work necessary to make the stadium safe and functional again: You said it would cost $50 million, but it will now cost $230 million...
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most insurance policies have an option (for the insurer) about settlement sums if you choose not to rebuild on the same site or take cash settlement, although if existing site ground is not suitable for a repair/rebuild I dont expect they would invoke said clause.
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The council uses Civic Assurance, as do most of the councils I think, not surprisingly given it was set up by and for local government in NZ. CCC settled for around $900 million paid out from a supposed maximum amount of about $1.2 billion. That was on advice of lawyers because otherwise they'd be fighting in court for years, and the funds wouldn't be paid until after that. Essentially, we got shafted by our own insurance company, and I doubt any other companies would be better to deal with...
The $50 million claim collapsed when the councillors and mayor got a guided tour of Lancaster Park by the engineers who costed actual repairs at over $200 million, hence the decision to build a new stadium.
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@Godder yes I think most Councils are through Civic, thing is alot of the money coming in for this will be through the off-shore re-insurers anyway, so regardless of how well intentioned the local company is, the big wigs off shore will be writing the cheques once an event triggers the re-insurance, and it's these re-insurers that have forced many NZ insurers to change the way they offered home insurance post-Christchurch.
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