Eden Park, as a former swamp, is part of the flood plan for the ‘sponge’ city!
Yeh, one reason it’s been put off so long you’d suspect is that all the options for a large stadium have massive drawbacks, stadiums everywhere run at a loss and while the Blues haven’t been filling the stadium there’s not a regular tenant likely to use it to capacity.
As Half-A-Pint alludes to a lot of new stadiums, particularly in the US are in industrial areas for obvious reasons.
On the other hand you don’t get any of those grounds where someone’s watching the cricket on an apartment balcony or where there’s a march to the stadium and all the houses have their flags and colors out!
Yeh, one reason it’s been put off so long you’d suspect is that all the options for a large stadium have massive drawbacks, stadiums everywhere run at a loss and while the Blues haven’t been filling the stadium there’s not a regular tenant likely to use it to capacity.
As Half-A-Pint alludes to a lot of new stadiums, particularly in the US are in industrial areas for obvious reasons.
On the other hand you don’t get any of those grounds where someone’s watching the cricket on an apartment balcony or where there’s a march to the stadium and all the houses have their flags and colors out!