Man City presses on with £300m stadium expansion
Contractor Sisk has reached the highest point of the expanded North Stand at the Etihad Stadium with completion scheduled partway through next season.
The final steel for Manchester City’s £300m project has been installed, the club has announced, marking a major milestone for the scheme.
Once complete, the Populous-designed project will increase the stadium’s capacity to more than 60,000, create a covered 3000-capacity fan zone, and introduce a “state-of-the-art” museum experience.
In addition, work to deliver The Medlock, a 400-bed Radisson hotel, is running concurrently with the North Stand scheme. The hotel was designed by WATG and is expected to complete in late 2026, the club said.
Manchester City Council Leader Cllr Bev Craig attended a ceremony to mark the topping out.
She said: “This is a major infrastructure investment which will create and support hundreds of jobs, adding to the remarkable regeneration of East Manchester in which the club has played a constructive role.
“It’s great to see this construction milestone reached. It means it won’t be long before those benefits for the city and the community start to be realised.”
The current capacity is 53,400 and I read there was going to be added 7,700 seats which I make 61,100. There’s clearly some debate as I’ve seen estimates from 60,000 to 61,968. Time will tell.
On another note I find it amazing that the Radisson hotel being built there will have over 400 bedrooms, actually 401 and will be the biggest outside London.
As Bev Craig indicated it won’t be long now before the City starts seeing the benefits of this investment.
If only it had a mainline station near Ashton new road. The line is there.
By Peter Chapman
That’s almost three and a half hotel rooms for each one of City’s alleged Premier League financial rule breaches.
By Anonymous
Fair play to city for adding so much along with the council to the whole area over the years. I just wish that new hotel looked better though.
By Anonymous
i hope the jobs will be local and not agency work. who live here.
By juno
As much as this development is impressive, and a big boost for the club, you’d hope the owners will turn their attention to the landscaping and general aesthetic of the land around the ground in the coming years!! It’s a bit of an eye sore in truth, and as much as the development will help the club with it’s finances, and the facilities now being first rate, the lack of architectural merit of the external materials used throughout the Etihad campus coupled with total lack of greenery makes the area look like a bloody retail park ffs. They can do better and have the financial clout to make it happen. Maybe one day.
By Anonymous
Unless they get realistic over ticket prices they’re wasting their money putting extra seats in
By Anonymous
Amazing ,apparently they lease the ground from city council ,someone’s telling porkys!!!
By C Hutchinson
Why expand etihad when it doesn’t get filled now
By Anonymous
Why have they stopped doing gigs?
By Anonymous
Great comment on the quality of the public realm around the Etihad/Co-op Live. I don’t if the MCC plan for Holt Town thinks about this opportunity, and TBH the car parking needs to shrink too.
By Rich X
It’s noticeable that not many comments from the Mayor. Too busy in Trafford. City have invested hundreds of millions in the area to the benefit of Manchester and its citizens. United have spent nothing, want anybody else to pay for a new stadium and our Mayor is fawning all over them.
By Dan
‘Want anybody else to pay for a new stadium’ ..you mean it’s going to be free?! Great! why haven’t city thought of that…they’ve had every other …err ‘deal’ going over the years in the premier league. Seems like a real miss.
By Billy the fish