RSSWork starts on Salford City Reds' £26m stadium
Published: 2010-05-20 09:19:37
Work on building Salford's £26 million community stadium has officially started on site today.
(Sourced from Crain's Manchester News.)
The club said the stadium development was the largest single investment in sport in the city of Salford for decades.
Salford City Council has formed a joint venture company with Peel to deliver the 15-000 capacity stadium – which will be home to Salford City Reds by December 2011.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) is funding the £4 million cost of preparing the Barton site for development and joined the joint venture partners at a ground-breaking ceremony today.
After the ground is prepared, construction of the new stadium will start in October. Development of the site will be phased, with retail units added later.
Salford City Council and Peel have pooled their landholdings to create a single, 70-acre super-site. Detailed proposals for the development are to be considered by council planners in August.
Under the original plans, Salford City College – an amalgamation of three further education colleges – was due to build a campus on site but in June 2009 it was announced that the project had failed to attract funding from the Learning and Skills Council.
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