Alternative Wellington Stadium

The Log farm as Taxinda and Gyeens are going to process all logs in NZ . 

This will price Wgtn out of the market so Winnie can have his port in Whangarei profitable

Wow, lotta Young Nats in here today

Funny how they've been caught out lying about labor so in the absence of facts they've had to resort to name calling.

How did this become about politics? Is nowhere safe from election talk?

The logs are on the other side of the road from the proposed development, as far as I can see. 

Still similar challenges with what is in the area.

Overall it would be pretty awesome I think. 

Build it and they will come

Sorry i thought this was for a boutique rectangular grassed stadium. Not the proposed concert/hard court inside venue proposed for  Above the current concourse. 

That depends on your definition of "safe".

Lets build this here please. What's great is that if the top tiers aren't being used, a "curtain" comes down to cover it. Incredible.

 Atlanta United FC got 72 thousand in there on the weekend.

Mate, if that was in Wellington I'd go watch the Hurricanes/Lions just to be in the stadium!

might need longer curtains

Let's just build something.

I bought my boy some Lego type blocks in the warehouse ($15 for over 1,100 pieces) and we're ready to get started on building!

Don't lie, you bought them for yourself ? 

Sweet, I'll get my stash and we'll make half a stadium each. Then I'll ship my half to you and you can present it to Dome and Morrison!

I posted this in the wrong place (sorry mods). Thought I'd re-post here...

The Hastings Regional Sports Park had an initial $25 million budget for the stadium, track and surrounding turf facilities. I have no idea what the final cost was.

Remove the track, add a large stand and there we would have the 10,000 to 15,000 stadium we need

This wasin reply to @youngheart 's post which showed kyle adam's new team's perfect (for us) new stadium

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As a side note, love the home ground for RGV. Brand new build for $18m USD, seats just under 10k

Gosford's stadium cost $28 million in 1999 and holds just over 20,000

The great thing about this stadium is the ease of access, right at the entrance to Gosford with easy parking and a quick walk into the arena. Attending an event doesn't require a half day commitment

What happened to the plans to creatively remodel the Cake Tin to create the option of a smaller venue inside the main structure?

SkyscraperCity

... just 11.809 (7.409 seats), but that's okay for a town this size. It's was built in 2003-2004 and the price was some 11,5 million €. -  20 m NZD  would be double now at a guess

Was there ever plans to do that? I did a rendering years ago where I rotated the pitch 90 degrees so that the current stands that run along the sides were now the stands that were on either end, and new temporary stands were created along the sides but I've never heard of anyone actually seriously considering having a smaller venue inside the main one.

Providence Park, Portland. 

Inner city, seats 21,000, absolutely magic atmosphere

I like Union Berlin's stadium. 3/4 of the stands are terraced with one main stand with seating and boxes. Having more terracing will reduce costs quite a bit. Any potential 'Nix stadium could at least have behind the goals and corners terraced.

Are there any rules against terracing in the A-League/NZ?

I'm sure there has been the odd game in the HAL played at stadiums with grass embankments (Nth Sydney Oval, Nth Harbour etc.) and that seems ok.

has any one ever sat on the grass however at north harbour or has it been closed off?

Was open on Saturday.

The problem is when you build a new stadium, it can't just be seats. You need to incorporate corporate boxes for sponsors and hospitality as that helps generate money. As much as it looks ugly, having the stadium double for a athletics track or be able to host events other than football is also important to help generate money for the club. I.e Spurs new stadium is going to also be used to host NFL.

Just because a stadium cost circa $20m elsewhere, doesn't mean it'll be the same in Wellington. There are lots of hills, regulations for earthquakes have come in, different council, it needs to be somewhere with good transport links, etc.

There were a few kids up on the grass at one end, the other was closed off as was the stand below the cameras. there was one photographer over on that side of the ground.

But at the same time you don't want to be too far from the action either. We have way too many Cricket/AFL grounds that are used for soccer matches and the atmosphere is just sooo so poor. So if we have a running track, we need to make the stands real tightknit to the running track. 

Take Lakeside Stadium (where South Melbourne play) for example. There's the same amount of excess grass outside of the sidelines as Hindmarsh Stadium, and then just running track.

Absolutely. I support QPR - at Loftus Rd you are literally in touching distance of players. My point is that when building new grounds, club's often try to utilise them as another avenue to generate revenue. Let's be honest, football in NZ isn't popular enough to warrant a stadium that only caters to one team. 

I agree, but I live in hope that one day Wellington will have a rectangular stadium shared by Rugby, League and Footy

Otherwise known as 'What they should have done with the Westpac'

with a roof so we can have concerts there too.

Ahh nice thought.....I'm going to the Friends Arena in Stockholm on Saturday to watch Sweden v Chile. Having "endured" the Phoenix this season I'm looking forward to "enjoying" a proper game, in a proper stadium , with proper fans & atmosphere ;-) 

I assume the Friends Arena has a roof. I think all new stadiums should aim to have a roof as people today expect more comfort than previous generations. Dunedin people moaned and protested when their expensive new stadium was built, with a roof, but Dunedin now has one of the best facilities in this country. And the roof makes it viable for all kinds of other uses and events.  

Think it's been a disaster financially though and the Dunedin rate payers constantly have to make up for it's losses.

I think you mean Athletic Park

Forsyth Bar is exactly what Wellington should have been.  But they pandered for the Cricket. And lost a golden chance for roof and any future expansion. 

When the built it people probably went to cricket, but seems pretty crazy in hindsight with the sorts of crowds the cricket gets and the fact that there is an iconic and purpose built cricket ground just a couple of KM away.