Melbourne City Council Approves $2 million for Redevelopment

sticksaftersiren87 · **Joined:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:50 am **Posts:** 1237

Tonight, a committee of the Melbourne City Council approved $2 million each towards the redevelopment of Princes Park and Punt Road Oval.

Nice one MCC and good work Blueboys. I am sure work will start soon.

camel · **Posted:** Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:52 pm

Cool. Some good news for a change.

Synbad · **Posted:** Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:54 pm

But where will we play those 3 home games were going to get back from the MCG and the Dome????

seanpb · **Posted:** Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:56 pm

jack elliotts backyard synners.....o wait, he doesnt have a house does he.

Kaptain Kouta · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:41 pm **Posts:** 63509

Maybe they literally mean Princes Park, and they'll just play some scratch matches on the parkland outside MC Hammer Oval....

molsey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:32 am

Great stuff.

So now all the Club has to do is raise $2m and Smorgon recently put some $ into that... I wonder how close we are? Or are we already there?

It would be great PR to be able to start this - actually get something big up & running; new beginning - all that jazz

bondiblue · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:14 am

Molsey wrote

Quote:

Great stuff.

So now all the Club has to do is raise $2m and Smorgon recently put some $ into that... I wonder how close we are? Or are we already there?

It would be great PR to be able to start this - actually get something big up & running; new beginning - all that jazz

Sure is Molesy...it takes us out of the darkness of the last 5 years; the 5 year sentence is over? I think so.

Elite training facilities, a coat of paint, a squad of 30 kids, (9 top 20 draftees and 3 father sons), and another preseason under their belt, sounds good to me.

$2M from MCC
$500K from AFL
$? Victorian govt
$? Smorgon, benefactors...

This project shouldn't be costing the club much from their pocket.

Carlton....the place to be.

camel · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:12 am

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/ ... 62,00.html

Quote:

Carlton chief executive Michael Malouf said: "This will allow us to get facilities that will be at least the equal of the interstate clubs.

"It is an extremely important result for our club and we are grateful to the council, the AFL and the State Government."

Brettie · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:13 pm

sticksaftersiren87 wrote:

Tonight, a committee of the Melbourne City Council approved $2 million each towards the redevelopment of Princes Park and Punt Road Oval.

Nice one MCC and good work Blueboys. I am sure work will start soon.

The Whitten Oval redevelopment has a figure of $20 million attached to it, with the MCC, State Governent, etc. contributions, I hope ours is a similar sized redevelopment (as I've seen the actual building plans for the Whitten Oval redevelopment and it's VERY impressive).

GWS · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:22 pm

Tigers fans are going to be really happy when that new roller door's finished. :lol:

JohnM · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:26 pm

ours is 12mill brettie,

so I guess you can assume that it's going to be 60% as good as the doggies, but 40% better than the tigers.

I suspect the discrepency is in the amount of community-based development: the western oval will probably have a greater number of facilities for the local residents.

molsey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:26 pm

Brettie wrote:

sticksaftersiren87 wrote:

Tonight, a committee of the Melbourne City Council approved $2 million each towards the redevelopment of Princes Park and Punt Road Oval.

Nice one MCC and good work Blueboys. I am sure work will start soon.

The Whitten Oval redevelopment has a figure of $20 million attached to it, with the MCC, State Governent, etc. contributions, I hope ours is a similar sized redevelopment (as I've seen the actual building plans for the Whitten Oval redevelopment and it's VERY impressive).

$15.7m for ours:

http://carltonfc.com.au/default.asp?pg= ... eid=272599

Size doesnt matter though surely. When you consider the whole of the Whitten Oval needs to be redone (and the surface is often brown and untrainable) its a question of what needs to be done, not how much $ you're spending.

Brettie · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:34 pm

Agreed Molsey - didn't know what the figure was for ours, plenty can and will be done with $15+ million as I daresay some of our current facilties may have been in a tad better condition than the John Gent Stand (Bulldogs main administration facility and only remaining grandstand).

TheGame · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:40 pm

I imagine most of the Western oval stands would be demolished where a couple of Carlton's would just need a face lift.

camel · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:34 pm

JohnM wrote:

ours is 12mill brettie,

so I guess you can assume that it's going to be 60% as good as the doggies, but 40% better than the tigers.

I suspect the discrepency is in the amount of community-based development: the western oval will probably have a greater number of facilities for the local residents.

There's more federal votes to be won in the Western suburbs than there is in inner city Melbourne.

GWS · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:41 pm

camelboy wrote:

JohnM wrote:

ours is 12mill brettie,

so I guess you can assume that it's going to be 60% as good as the doggies, but 40% better than the tigers.

I suspect the discrepency is in the amount of community-based development: the western oval will probably have a greater number of facilities for the local residents.

There's more federal votes to be won in the Western suburbs than there is in inner city Melbourne.

Actually they're both incredibly safe Labour seats. Lindsay Tanner holds Melbourne. Nicola Roxon's in Gellibrand. Both have been ALP seats pretty much since they were formed.

camel · **Posted:** Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:43 pm

Oh well, it was a nice theory.

molsey · **Posted:** Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:47 pm

http://carltonfc.com.au/default.asp?pg= ... eid=301995

I gather the missing $2m is that to be provided by the Club.

GWS · **Posted:** Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:48 pm

I wonder where the club would be at if we'd built this instead of the Legends Stand all those years ago.

steve · **Posted:** Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:31 pm

molsey wrote:

http://carltonfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=301995

I gather the missing $2m is that to be provided by the Club.

Yup, of which the club has raised some funds, as mentioned when Smorgon donated some of his own cash earlier this year.

On a positive note, that's probably the best announcement I've read coming from the club, which is pleasing given my comments earlier in the week over Smorgon's speech.

They've set the bar at a reasonable standard, I hope that they keep all announcements at that level for the future.

Melbourne City Council Approves $2 million for Redevelopment

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