Riverside development April start

[PPPPPP]

Plus the new one is much bigger than the old one. I expect it can be seen from space.

Along with the stack of brown envelopes.












(Allegedly)

 

[Jonah]

Am I the only one that recalls the tesco car park being declared structurally unsafe and immediately closed several years ago?
There's plenty to criticise, but I don't think knocking down an unsafe building is one of them!

No you aren't. I remember that as well.

 

[John Marwood]

Though, I didn't take them as you prescribed.

Ahh, yes that's a common misunderstanding, Sea anemone...

 

[McPhee]

The new cinema probably will have an IMAX screen. IMAX have diluted their brand so much over the past decade that it doesn't mean much any more - in most cases it's just a sign that the projector isn't utter poop.

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

The new cinema probably will have an IMAX screen. IMAX have diluted their brand so much over the past decade that it doesn't mean much any more - in most cases it's just a sign that the projector isn't utter poop.

Personally I don't think it's IMAX diluting their brand I think it's more to do with Hollywood trying to squeeze more cash out or punters by converting their films into that standard.

All it will mean is that the screen will be supermassive (normally 20m+ x 15m+)... Not necessarily that the content will be much cop....

 

[John Marwood]

Watch films on ya phone like normal people

Cinemas....? Is it 1950 again?

 

[pinky]

When is this meant to be finished? I can't believe how quick it is going up now!?

 

[John Marwood]

Stafford Car Parks FC

AGM

Prize Giving followed by live music from Max Headroom

Free admission

£4 on exit

 

[ATJ]

All I know is that the footpath closure is in place until December. Roll on getting back my lovely riverside walk to The Sun

 

[PPPPPP]

Stafford Place still isn't finished, so why should the new Super 8 cinema be open before 2020, by which time no-one will want to go because every house has a TV as big as will fit through the door.

 

[Jonah]

From what I have heard, the new car park will be open in September (yes this year allegedly) but the whole development isn't due to be finished until 2017.

 

[Chick]

The speed the rest of it's going up I can't imagine it will take until 2017 to finish. I'd got the end of this year in my head but I don't know where from

 

[Jonah]

86 weeks for building apparently. Can't remember when they actually started but it seems like late 2016 for completion.

https://www.facebook.com/simonsgroupstafford

http://www.simonsgroup.com/h/customers/lxbstafford/196/

http://www.cctvmon.com/simons/stafford

 

[Jonah]

Oh yeah Phones4U are having a unit in the new development....

 

[markpa12003]

I heard the new development would be open in Spring next year. I can't remember where I heard that (I may have even dreamt it).

I would expect most of the building work would be completed by the end of this year given the speed its going up, as such its just the 'fit out'.

 

[Chick]

I thought work started on the car park midway through last year though. The end date is suspiciously missing from the newsletter and info on those sites

 

[The Hawk]

Well the first newsletter is dated September 2014 and the website says that the project will take 86 weeks so, assuming nothing has changed, we should be looking at somewhere around May 2016.

 

[Gareth]

Car park at the latest Oct 2015.

Shopping development occupied summer 2016.

Cinema spring 2017.

 

[daz100]

Car park at the latest Oct 2015.

Shopping development occupied summer 2016.

Cinema spring 2017.

Does the cinema have planning permission now? What about the civic units being reversed?

 

[Confused]

Does the cinema have an operator yet, I thought that was the sticking point?