Loirston chosen for new stadium

Aberdeen FC set to move

EXCLUSIVE

By Charlie Allan

 

Published: 03/04/2009

 

THE Evening Express can today reveal the preferred location for Aberdeen’s new community stadium.

 

The £38 million community facility, which will become home to Aberdeen FC, will be at Loirston Loch in the south of the city.

 

It follows a year-long series of feasibility studies to decide if the site at Nigg would be the best location for the stadium.

 

The report on the recommendation of the Nigg site will now go out to consultation and will be referred to the council’s policy and strategy committee on April 28.

 

A number of other potential sites across the city, including one at King’s Links, were examined by Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen FC and it was decided all of them were unsuitable.

 

Aberdeen FC managing director Duncan Fraser, who is also a member of the Arena Project Advisory and Monitoring Board created to advise of the best site and stadium design, said: “These recommendations have still to be approved and at the appropriate time, there will be a full consultation process with fans.

 

“Their feedback will be important.â€

 

For more on this story, and an exclusive image of the new arena, pick up today’s Evening Express or check back later

I mind the rumour that gallons of concrete were secretly being poured into the foundations of the South stand every year to keep it from sinking into the ground.

What a farce. Derisory sums of money. 

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6968102/aberdeen-beach-stadium-budget-preview/

119 pages and counting about something that will never happen 

This thread alone is one month away from its 17th Anniversary 🤣🤦‍♂️

The club says that talks with the council about the new stadium are taking "longer than expected".

2 hours ago, swaddon said:

The club says that talks with the council about the new stadium are taking "longer than expected".

Colour me surprised. The club cannot buy good PR at the moment (less Marshall).

4 hours ago, swaddon said:

The club says that talks with the council about the new stadium are taking "longer than expected".

I expected them to take longer than expected. It's still never going to happen.

Edited March 31Mar 31 by Jupiter

Any news on how discussions are progressing with the Council?