Stanley Park Stadium
Proposed home football stadium for Liverpool FC / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stanley Park was a proposed football stadium in Stanley Park, Liverpool. If built, it would have become home to the Liverpool Football Club. It would have replaced their current stadium at Anfield. The stadium had a planned capacity of 60,000 all-seated. It was also potentially expandable to 73,000 or more.
Full name | Stanley Park Stadium |
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Location | Stanley Park, Liverpool, Merseyside, England |
Owner | Fenway Sports Group |
Operator | Liverpool F.C. |
Capacity | 60,000 expandable to 73,000 (all-seater) |
Surface | Desso GrassMaster |
Construction | |
Built | Cancelled |
Opened | 2006 (planned) |
Construction cost | £400 million[1] |
Architect | HKS, Inc.[2] |
Project manager | KUD International with Davis Langdon, An AECOM Company |
Structural engineer | Ramboll Whitbybird |
General contractor | Laing O'Rourke |
There were two designs that were given planning permission. One was designed by architects AFL with a capacity of 60,000, the second was a more expensive futuristic design by Dallas-based architects HKS, which would originally seat 60,000 with a capacity for further expansion to 73,000.
As of January 2012, only small site preparation work had been completed. A change in owners resulted in the plans for Stanley Park Stadium being reexamined. In October 2012, new owners Fenway Sports Group announced their decision to redevelop and expand the current club stadium Anfield (in a similar way that they redeveloped Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox) rather than proceed with the planned new stadium.[3]