God give me strength. My Dad is bigger than your Dad. How long has Leeds been in the North West? Who cares which city has the best arena? I go to see the band, not the ego outside in the surrounding streets. As stated before we are involved with the visitor economy in the LCR. Only this week we had visitors staying with us from Spain for the Bon Jovi concert and other nationalities and from all over the British Isles from over 50 different countries for other events of all sizes. In fact we are pleasantly surprised at the number of visitors from abroad who visit for the shopping at L1.
There is a section of fans who travel to as many concerts as possible, so if the Arena in Liverpool was bigger it would attract more visitors. One could argue that most of Manchesters eastern catchment area is comprised of empty moors and hills, but I am sure the sheep would be made very welcome there?
Beyond those moors is Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford and the rest of Yorkshire. Many people come from these areas for concerts to use the Arena and Stadia, oh and the Airport.
Imagine the absolute outrage that would have rightly ensued from Manchunians had the roles been reversed. The MEN got going on the back of the Olympics bid, with lots of funding from central government to help it along. From that point on all alleged sensible talk of markets and catchment areas becomes defunt.
A big bung was thrown at Manchester which allowed it to gain a head start. If this plan comes to pass Manchester will have twice the number of venues and four times the amount of seats over a city a thirty miles away, which is only a few hundred thousand less in population.
I suspect the size of the arena was therefore mainly dictated by the amount of government money available than anything else. People love coming to Liverpool for the vibe it offers. Merseyside, to an extent along with South Yorkshire, used to be recognised as one of the most deprived areas in Europe and we used to get extra European funding for that.
This ceased quite a while ago and George Osborne took funding away that we should have received from Europe. Much of the comparable UDC funding that came to Liverpool went to our old docks. They are much more central to our city and much more historic than in the Manchester area.
That is not our fault, but it is our good fortune. More good news Manchester, with this, Mayfield and The Factory the place is gonna buzz even more. Need more hotels to cope. Is the new arena in Leeds having an effect on certain events in Manchester, when the good folk of Yorkshire have a facility of their own? It must effect some of them? Simples :.
Maybe a new arena would support an ice hockey team unlike the last place. MCR arena, I agree is terrible for concerts. Sign up to Place Daily Briefing Subscribe. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.
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If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with that. Good news to see further development in this part of the city. But please sort the transport out. People on here really have it in for the AO area and its owners. It needs investment but they do raise some valid points. Manchester and the city of Salford population is growing rapidly. This will get used by local people and people from all over the northwest.
We need 2 arenas. The market in what precisely? All cities will see an economic downturn at the moment pretty obvious given the restrictions. Economic growth will return in time and its the cities that attract significant investment that will continue to grow and prosper Manchester has shown itself very adept when it comes to that. The public transport cannot cope they do not increase the frequency of metros when there is something on at The Etihad.
Most major event tours are not expected to be back until according to some promoters. Current events work for OVG as there will be a pent up demand searching for sizeable venues if it opens as they are proposing.
We have won the lottery the council strip and ex slums has been update and now they think they rule the world lol. Go to a soulless part of town to go and watch a soulless pop act eg Coldplay, the killers, Justin Beaker in a soulless airport hanger box.
Fantastic vote of confidence in Manchester. This city has consistently recovered from previous setbacks,usually stronger than ever think of the 70s and 80s and will do so once again. Depends what criteria you are using for second richest city, usually it is based on Greater Manchester and other areas are based on Cities only more Mancheater again then there is wealth management and GVA, some cities gained extra areas and others lost some by political decisions, so unless it is purely on city basis only then a true declaration can be made, because if the same rule applied everywhere some of the dormitory towns down south would really be in contention.
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