Celtic granted permission to build £18million hotel and museum next to stadium

[pete 2,499]

Celtic have been given permission to build a multi-million pound hotel and museum next to their stadium.

 

The Parkhead club plans to regenerate the area around the stadium in the East End of the city.

 

The club also released images of the £18million development earlier in the year.

 

Glasgow City Council granted planning permission to go ahead with the project commencing over a number of years and creating many job opportunities for the local community.

 

The site will include a hotel, museum, retail and ticket office facilities.

 

Evening Times:

 

A statement released by the club read: "The application is part of Celtic's long-standing masterplan for the area, a vision which aims to deliver benefits to the club and our supporters and allow further regeneration of the East End of the city, something to which we are totally committed.

 

It is important to emphasise that considerable work and investment over a number of years would be required to bring this project to fruition.

 

Celtic aims to be a world-class football club in everything it does. We are pleased to have made significant investment in recent years to develop the stadium and public realm area for the benefit of our supporters.

 

Any further development of this kind would be a hugely positive step for the club, for our supporters and for the local community, but we understand there would be a number of challenges to overcome to complete a development of this scale."

 

A spokesperson for Celtic said: “We are very pleased that initial planning permission has been granted. Clearly, there is still considerable work to be done in bringing such an ambitious project to fruition. However, we will now engage with other relevant parties to assess this potential development."

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15563911.Celtic_granted_permission_to_build___18million_hotel_and_museum_next_to_stadium/

 

Well there is a surprise.

[ranger_syntax 4,320]

It could become a nice earner for them.

 

On the other hand it could become an expensive distraction with spiralling costs and delays.

[MacK1950 2,376]

Hopefully the costs will be astronomical as they got the grounds for a pittance.

[der Berliner 3,744]

Hopefully the costs will be astronomical as they got the grounds for a pittance.

 

And not a whisper about it from the otherwise so investigative journalists ...

[StuGers 477]

Strangely enough the ground was sold to them for rock bottom prices, as it was deemed unsuitable for commercial purposes.... such as the building of a hotel. All very strange. And not picked up by the press strangely enough. Even though all the information is out there.

 

One thing I'd like to know is: who is finding this? I seriously can't see that mob dipping into their own pockets.

[RANGERRAB 3,654]

Who'd want to stay in a hotel in Porkheid ?

[der Berliner 3,744]

The taxhavens website (methinks) had a decent article about the amount of Celtic season-ticket holders in the ranks of the Glasgow City Council at the time of that deal ...

[Bill 13,717]

You can criticise how the acquired the land but we'd be more than happy if Rangers had just made this announcement. The hard hard truth is the people running Celtic are smarter, better connected and better resourced than the second raters in our boardroom. Until that changes we'll keep falling farther and farther behind them.

[MacK1950 2,376]

"Funding?" just look at what country's bank Liewell's boss/mentor (the bold Desmond) is a major shareholder in.

Edited September 29, 2017 by MacK1950
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[der Berliner 3,744]

You can criticise how the acquired the land but we'd be more than happy if Rangers had just made this announcement. The hard hard truth is the people running Celtic are smarter, better connected and better resourced than the second raters in our boardroom. Until that changes we'll keep falling farther and farther behind them.

 

Make no mistake, they were losing millions in 2010 and were losing millions afterwards. They were kept afloat by the Scum having a near automatic entry into the money machine called CL. I remember an article saying that in the season when they played us 7 times (the Diouf year methinks) they made a post-tax profit of 180k. I'm not going to check their annual results, but cut the CL millions and some VERY fortunate deals with the likes of Southampton out of that, and they are in dire straits.