New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium


Can’t say either way on the capacity as don’t know enough but perhaps there was a trade off on the location vs size.

If you build a 70k seater stadium out in the sticks then it makes extra money on match day because of the capacity but is empty other days of the year apart from any events you can put on.

If Everton get this right with the riverfront location, and the community that will spring up around it, there’s the potential to make money from that stadium every day of the week.

Business conference? Have a waterfront view.
Fine dining? City location with river view
Music festival? Here’s a city centre location with facilities
Drinks? At your favourite Everton themed city centre bar

Quite simply the high rollers of this world do not want to spend their time in fields off motorway junctions, or in residential locked areas of Walton or Anfield. They want to stay at the top hotels, and attend events in the most desirable parts of the city. That’s what our stadium could deliver if Everton get it right. Revenue 365 days of the year. We may have had to compromise on the size to achieve this but honestly securing that waterfront location whilst Liverpool remain in the suburbs is perhaps the only proactive move we’ve made ahead of them in years. If we’d have given that up for a mega stadium in the sticks and left them to the city centre I’d have been devastated.
Just to add to this, I remember hearing from Meis at the time that plans were announced that we were limited to around 55k as that is the highest you can safely go to at two tiers.

The overall footprint needed for a 3 tiered stadium is much larger than the site at Bramley Moore, and there were no other sites big enough anywhere in Liverpool.
 
Just to add to this, I remember hearing from Meis at the time that plans were announced that we were limited to around 55k as that is the highest you can safely go to at two tiers.

The overall footprint needed for a 3 tiered stadium is much larger than the site at Bramley Moore, and there were no other sites big enough anywhere in Liverpool.
Just a thought. If we are now looking at the dock next door, then we could have filled that one also and plonked the stadium in the middle of the two
 
Just to add to this, I remember hearing from Meis at the time that plans were announced that we were limited to around 55k as that is the highest you can safely go to at two tiers.

The overall footprint needed for a 3 tiered stadium is much larger than the site at Bramley Moore, and there were no other sites big enough anywhere in Liverpool.
Well… he produced designs bigger than 55k for that site.
 



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