The Northumberland Park Developement has three parts to be done in order: the supermarket to the north, the stadium, and the housing units to the south. Starting on the first one means we are closer to starting the others.
I bet more than McLaren will tender, whether anyone else has more than a 20% chance of winning is another matter but a £300m contract in the current climate isn't one that people will want to simply pass over.
The Northumberland Park Developement has three parts to be done in order: the supermarket to the north, the stadium, and the housing units to the south. Starting on the first one means we are closer to starting the others.
I don't know enough about McLaren. How big are they?
A supermarket is one thing. But a £250 million stadium construction? Are they big enough for that? I suspect that Spurs would be a bit windy about the idea of them taking on such a responsibility and might, instead, opt for one of the heavyweights who are highly unlikely to find themselves in financial difficulty mid build. If I was to have a punt on it, I'd go with Sir Robert McAlpine. They built the Emirates on schedule and on budget, having worked on the project with a number of the team who are now overseeing our project.
Good stuff! Do we have an estimated date for the stadium? I just went through the wikipedia article and it depressed me that the original plan was to move into a partially-built stadium at the beginning of this season and it would be finished for next season! Damn these delays...
Sometimes can be a good idea to have a different contractor, like you say, rather than all your eggs in one basket
“After the successful completion of the Club’s Training Centre, we are very proud to be awarded the contract for phase 1 of the development of the Club’s existing site. This award is testament to the strong partnership between McLaren and Tottenham Hotspur, and we look forward to continuing to build this relationship for the future."
I don't know enough about McLaren. How big are they?
A supermarket is one thing. But a £250 million stadium construction? Are they big enough for that? I suspect that Spurs would be a bit windy about the idea of them taking on such a responsibility and might, instead, opt for one of the heavyweights who are highly unlikely to find themselves in financial difficulty mid build. If I was to have a punt on it, I'd go with Sir Robert McAlpine. They built the Emirates on schedule and on budget, having worked on the project with a number of the team who are now overseeing our project.
I think you mis read my post. I said plenty other than McLaren will be tendering. One of my best mates works for Robert McAlpine, I'll see what goss I can find out.
^ KSS are the ones who designed the job (and all subsequent design drawings that we see on the web) - McLaren or Mclpine or whoever will just work to their spec
http://www.kssgroup.com/projects/tottenham-hotspur-fc-stadium.php
I've worked on a few stadium projects and also in retail construction and McLaren are not big enough to run a stadium project IMO. They do retail new builds but there £20M projects with fixed cash flow and timescales right up their street.
I'm waiting on a copy of our stadium plans. I had a copy of the training ground tender docs (may still ace them) and the quite comprehensive.
As someone said Alfred Mac will be all over this along with LOR and some of the bigger boys, however I think we're a long way from funding it
Right this is for one of the guys that knows finance because it is not my strongest area.
Just been reading that wenger says that now the staidum is paid off at arsenal they can go out and spend big. So how long has it taken them to pay off their stadium? thing in there favour are the champions league money and the flats they sold.
So can we expect to pay it off as quickly, we don't have champs league money coming in but have a lower wage bill, i know we got ome grants and are doing some residential but i guess not as valuable as in arsenal.
Anyone know how much the stadium build will actually cost us? i have seen anything from 250m to 500m i mean the cost of the flats and supermarket should not be brought into it because we wont be paying for that. How much will the actual stadium cost and will we be paying it off for decades or can we expect to be going out and making big name signings after 7 or 8 years.