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Wow that’s a lot of scaffolding!Wouldn't they want provision for up to 40k seats incase Australia bids for the 2030/34/38 FIFA World Cups? Though there have been two venues in the 2018 World Cup in Russia that held less than 40k (Kaliningrad and Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg.) The latter was notable for having temporary stands behind the goals that looked like this;
Even without corruption, Asia will get the WC every 20 years at best. ASEAN (which will include Indonesia) will be next. We could well be up against China next time we bid (around 2062). Allowing for expansion to 40K will add $$$ and possibly make viewing worse. If you are going to have a roof, forget about increasing capacity.
NQ stadium style would be the answer. 25k seats under roof, 5k open end that could have temp 10k stand added on.
Hold on, didn't you just say 40k should be the minimum? Backtrack much?
In Canberra you either get 25k-30k in Civic that services the city well for 30 odd years. If you want bigger for the remote chance Canberra hosts a soccer World Cup game, you get a white elephant in a shite location.
Eh? A 30k capacity stadium that can have an extra10k added on is 40k lol
Rugby league and soccer clubs should work together. Both games would benefit from it.
Australian soccer needs to forge closer ties with southeast Asia. Expand the A-League into Singapore and Hong Kong. The local game needs as much capital as it can get and there's little left over for them here, so go to markets that have it in spades. Singapore and Hong Kong need to expose their players to a higher quality competition like the A-League if they want to rise up the rankings.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but there's next to no chance that this gets up. It looks great in a flashy press release, but there isn't much substance to it.
Plans for indoor stadium on the site of the Civic Olympic Pool reignited
5 December 2022 | Tim Gavel
Imagining the new Civic stadium. Photo: GHDWoodhead.
Just as it looked as though the proposed 30,000-seat indoor sporting stadium on the site of the Civic Olympic Pool was on the verge of being cremated, the concept has been resurrected.
A consortium of Canberra businesses, sporting organisations and the Convention Bureau have developed a 36-page proposal addressing the issue of ageing infrastructure in the ACT.
The document, which has been presented to the Prime Minister and the ACT Chief Minister as well as Canberra’s Members of Parliament and ACT MLAs, outlines a way forward to build a new Civic indoor stadium and a new convention centre, as well as a proposal for the AIS Arena.
The plan would see the development of a 30,000-seat stadium, for use by the Raiders, the Brumbies and soccer, as well as providing an international standard, state-of-the-art entertainment venue built on the footprint of the Civic Olympic Pool site.
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Issues such as the limitations of the footprint have been addressed with an inverted bowl strategy, while the problems associated with growing of natural grass in an indoor stadium could be overcome with the roof constructed of a product known as ethylene tetrafluoroethylene membrane.
This same product was used successfully on the roof of the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, which allows for the growth of natural grass.
The new Convention Centre would be built alongside the Civic stadium as one option, effectively straddling Parkes Way, negating the need for any relocation of the road.
It would also enhance the ‘City to the Lake’ concept.
An artist’s impression of the city entertainment precinct. Photo: GHDWoodhead.
The proposal, which includes a hotel, would see the creation of a City East Entertainment Precinct with facilities for large-scale events coupled with the ability to cut costs as the stadium and the convention centre would be administered by the one entity, and utilise complementary infrastructure.
A new convention centre is viewed as being as equally important as a new stadium with Canberra being bypassed in the lucrative multibillion-dollar convention market.
To fund the facility the option of a public-private partnership has been proposed whereby a private company designs, builds and maintains the infrastructure on behalf of the government through a long-term contract.
With an estimated cost of between $495m and $736m, innovative funding options such as public-private partnerships are required.
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To that end, a business syndicate has proposed that underutilised land on the AIS Campus site be returned to the ACT.
This includes Canberra Stadium and the AIS Arena.
The ACT would then be in a position to offer the land to the public-private partnership for development to offset some of the costs associated with building a new facility at the Civic Olympic Pool site.
The proposal would see, as one option, resources set aside to refurbish the AIS Arena to be redirected to the planned medium-sized indoor stadium, currently undergoing feasibility and business case assessment at the University of Canberra.
An artist’s impression of the surrounds of the new city stadium. Photo: GHDWoodhead.
It’s obvious Canberra’s major sporting and convention facilities are in urgent need of a significant overhaul. There is an apparent desire from the business and sporting communities to meet that challenge and to assist the ACT Government in securing financing for such a project without unduly affecting its long-term bottom line.
Observers are quick to point to the chronic capital underfunding of Commonwealth per capita grants over the past decade as a catalyst for the Commonwealth’s support for this proposition.
With Chief Minister Andrew Barr signalling a preference for a redevelopment of Canberra Stadium on the existing Bruce site, it remains to be seen whether there is an appetite to embrace this latest proposal.
Plans for indoor stadium on the site of the Civic Olympic Pool reignited | Riotact
Just as it looked as though the proposed 30,000-seat indoor sporting stadium on the site of the Civic Olympic Pool…the-riotact.com
Perhaps they could have gone in that direction rather than introduce a series of very weak clubs in Melbourne and Sydney. Like the BBL, the A League is already well past it’s peak.
Like your thinking but Australia has more chance of hosting a WC than winning one. When we field a billion dollar squad, then we’ll be in with a shout.
Usually the biggest stadiums in this country are goverment funded so they are multipupose. Look at how many SOO games that get played outside of QLD and NSW are played in oval configuared stadiums, but have god awful views. Being a RL fan of course I would prefer a rectangular configuaration. No need for the insults mate.
That will be a way more expensive build
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