Birmingham City fans gasped in awe after the club unveiled plans for a new state-of-the-art ‘spaceship’ stadium.
The Blues ownership group, Knighthead, announced that they had acquired a 48-acre site within a mile of St Andrews, taking their overall land holding to over 60 acres.
As well as building a new stadium, the club are planning to build training facilities for all Birmingham City teams, and extensive commercial and community facilities for the surrounding community.
The idea is to have the new stadium and surrounding facilities built in time for the 2029/30 campaign, with the overall project costing between £2-3billion.
But with Knighthead Co-CEO and Chairman Tom Wagner unveiling the new design, fans were left gobsmacked.
“We need to go through planning, but I wanted to give you an idea of what we are looking at,” he began.
After unveiling the design, members of the audience could be heard gasping and applauding in awe.
Wagner then added: “I don’t know if we’re going to go with the spaceship look but I think it gives you a strong idea of what our intent is.
“Maybe the most important aspect is this huge promenade where people are coming in because not everyone will be watching the game in the stadium because obviously all 62,000 seats are sold,” he joked. “That’s no problem.
“But there’s a lot of activity in the offices and all of this (pointing to offices) will be built with the tenant in mind – we’ve already had inbound calls from people looking to partner with us on this.
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“We want something that fits in the community and critically it’s important that this doesn’t look like a blight on the skyline of Birmingham and that it fits within the context of the city and more importantly, the neighbourhood.
“There’s a lot to be done here but all of this is in keeping with our broader objectives.”
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