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Post by rugbytoffee on May 8, 2024 16:00:17 GMT
Everton FC have announced that the final brick facades for its new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock are ready to be lifted into place. This will complete the exterior of the English side’s brand new home, which is situated in a historic dockyard on the banks of the River Mersey in Liverpool.
We previously reported that more than half a million bricks would be used clad the new Everton Stadium in a design that deliberately complements its industrial dockside surroundings.
Each panel has been computer-designed in a 3D environment before being manufactured from real bricks under carefully monitored factory conditions. Everton received planning approval from Liverpool City Council for the new 52,888-seat stadium in February 2020 and formally broke ground in August 2021. The venue is planned to be completed in late 2024. It has not yet been decided when the first game will be played at the stadium.
Everton has said the aim has always been to try and replicate the best characteristics of its current home, Goodison Park, while improving on modern facilities to meet and surpass the expectations of the fans.
Accordingly, the exterior panels of the new stadium are arranged so they display elements of the historic Goodison Park latticework pioneered by the famous Scottish stadium architect, Archibald Leitch.
Meanwhile, blue Kellen blocks have been used to form a ‘rippling water’ pattern within the existing, exposed dock walls in the Fan Plaza. “It was always the plan to have the dock wall exposed and the area inside these walls will be laid with blue glass Kellen blocks,” said Gareth Jacques, project director at Laing O’Rourke, the main contractor for the project. “There are three different types of block, with different quantities of blue glass included as part of the manufacturing process. The design intent is that they appear like shimmering water when the light shines on them.”
The fan plaza is also interspersed with heritage items from the dock’s heyday, such as historic railway tracks, capstans, mooring bollards and cobblestones that were a feature when Liverpool’s docks dominated global trade.
Within the bowl, the first padded seats have also been installed for Dock on 1 members, within the west stand. Currently, more than 40,000 seats are now in place across the 52,888-capacity
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Post by Everton News. on May 9, 2024 8:04:00 GMT
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Post by rugbytoffee on May 14, 2024 15:35:58 GMT
Everton have received a major boost to complete their new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock.
According to a report from Bloomberg, the Toffees have been offered a loan of £150m by GDA Luma Capital, a private equity firm to complete the stadium project.
GDA Luma Capital specializes in distressed debt, and it will be interesting to see whether the Toffees take the help and complete the new 53,000-capacity stadium in Liverpool’s Bramley docks.
In December 2023, the Daily Mail reported that Bramley-Moore Dock’s cost could rise by up to £150m due to increased construction costs.
Josimar reported in March that Everton are looking at new avenues for funding for the stadium project.
The Premier League have set forth a necessary condition for the 777 Partners that they will have to produce funds to complete the stadium project, and doubts have surfaced whether they have the money to carry the club forward.
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Post by rugbytoffee on May 16, 2024 14:46:53 GMT
All of the additional inventory for the planned expansion of Everton Way has now sold out.
The paved walkway is being widened along the entire length of the south stand at Everton Stadium to accommodate as many fans as possible, including the hundreds who had joined the waiting list.
And within 24 hours of the announced widening of the scheme, the Club can confirm all of the remaining availability has been taken.
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Post by rugbytoffee on May 16, 2024 15:44:05 GMT
With a little more than a year to go until Everton Stadium opens, 80 per cent of ’ALL’ Seasonal Memberships have sold out.
Ranging from fine dining and international cuisine restaurants to sports bars, traditional pubs and tapas-style social spaces, the breadth of ‘ALL’ premium experiences on offer at Everton Stadium will be unprecedented. And following three previous sell-out phases for restaurants, a further 2,000 fans have now secured seasonal memberships across Village St and Trinity Place Bar, leaving only limited availability within the ‘ALL’ bars packages.
Village St and Trinity Place Bar make up the fourth, largest and final offering within the revolutionary reset of traditional football hospitality, which allows supporters to choose from a variety of bars, restaurants and experiences at the Club’s iconic new waterfront stadium.
And time is running out for fans to secure their seasonal memberships for the range of vibrant bars and traditional style pubs, which include access to premium seating.
Supporter Tony Harland, who recently signed up for a seasonal membership, said: “It’s great to be the 2000th seat holder within the ‘ALL’ bars experience. The new stadium already looks world class and is something all of us Evertonians will be proud of.”
Located in the West and East Stands respectively, Village St and Trinity Place Bar represent new destinations for members to enjoy on matchdays, including food and drink, as well as some of the best seats in the house across the half-way line.
Taking its name from the road in L4 that housed The Queen’s Head where, in 1879, St Domingo’s became Everton Football Club, Village Street has been designed to replicate a busy high street in the heart of the West Stand.
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