Birmingham City hope to move into a new 62,000-seater home in the Sports Quarter by 2030
Dan Meis designed Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium
Dan Meis designed Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium
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The architect who designed Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium wants the Sports Quarter job.
Renowned American architect Dan Meis created Everton’s 52,769 capacity replacement for Goodison Park and has now set his sights on Birmingham.
Birmingham City owners Knighthead have pledged up to £3 billion to create a Sports Quarter in the heart of the Second City which will comprise a 62,000-seater stadium, training facilities for all of the club’s teams, an indoor arena and entertainment spaces.
Blues chief Tom Wagner wants the job done by 2030 and hopes to have appointed an architect and submitted plans by early next year.
Meis has publicly declared his interest in assisting Wagner and Knighthead.
Asked what he had in the pipeline at the SVB conference at Villa Park on Monday, Meis is quoted by MailOnline as saying: “'Obviously there's the Birmingham stadium project and we're in the hunt for that.”
The Sports Quarter will be north of 125 acres when all is said and done and Knighthead currently have an army of 80 consultants working away on the project behind the scenes.
Everton’s stadium was completed five years after planning permission was granted by Liverpool City Council in February 2020 and started hosting Premier League fixtures in August.
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