[COM] Adelaide Oval Redevelopment

[monotonehell]

...This is really embarrassing by Channel Nein

What you did there, I see it.

[Phantom]

...This is really embarrassing by Channel Nein

What you did there, I see it.

Hey guys? Is it wrong that of all the things I could've thought of here, THIS is what first came to my mind?

[PeFe]

From the Craptiser

$2.6 million to fund an expanded Footy Express this season




TAXPAYERS and football are tipping in $2.6 million to fund an expanded Footy Express this season in a bid to change the way Adelaide views public transport.

All football patrons with a ticket will travel for free to Adelaide Oval before and after the game on buses, trains and trams in an expanded as the Transport Department and the SANFL initiative seeks to dramatically increase the use of public transport.

Adelaide Oval legislation includes a goal of having 70 per cent of patrons using public transport, but that is not considered realistic this year. Key stakeholders have indicated figure of 30 per cent for the first game and 50 per cent halfway through the season are more realistic ambitions in the short term.

But it will be a drastic uptake from Football Park, where the Footy Express services shipped an average of 22 per cent of the crowed to and from games.

The Sunday Mail understands $2 million of the extra cost of putting on additional services will come from state coffers and $600,000 will come from football. It is understood football is contributing a similar amount to what it invested at Football Park.

SANFL chief executive Leigh Whicker was confident it was a worthwhile investment into the fabric of the city.
We think it will be terrific and a real change to how people go to the football,’’ Mr Whicker said. “By the middle of the year, I don’t think it will be unrealistic to expect 50 per cent of people to take public transport to the game.’’

The Transport Department and the Stadium Management Authority see the initiative as a way of changing attitudes to public transport and mirror what happens in Melbourne, where an average of more than 80 per cent of patrons take public transport to the Melbourne Cricket Ground for football matches.

That ground has a capacity of 100,000 people and only has parking in the nearby parklands for 3500 cars.

But MCC spokesman Shane Brown said even MCG patrons were set in their ways. “When it rains and we have to close the car park, there’s always a few people upset about it,’’ he said. “But for a full game, even if you count three people in each car, you’d have to say 90 per cent of people get to the ground by walking or taking public transport.’’

Transport Department chief Rod Hook said the additional cost to the government would be negotiated down over the next few years and expected football and other major events to carry more of the cost as the levels of usage stabilised.

“We will try to adjust that so that it is paid by the sports,’’ Mr Hook said. “But we do have an extra cost with major events across the board. It’s a matter of negotiating that to the appropriate level.’’

Among initiatives for transport to Adelaide Oval this year:

TRAMS will have all rolling stock in service to transport patrons from North Terrace before and after games.

TRAINS will be three-car carriages and run one after the other after games to shift the crowd as quickly and seamlessly as possibly.

KING William Rd will be blocked between Victoria Rd and Nth Terrace for half an hour before games and an hour after games to serve as a bus interchange.

The Transport Department will cater the amount of services to the known postcodes of ticket holders to more efficiently help people get home after games.


They’re the best seats in the house ... and no pies with sauce


By JESPER FJELDSTAD
NOTHING beats the view from Adelaide Oval’s plushest seats, the fine dining tables in the Audi Stadium Club in the last stand to be completed at the venue, the eastern stand.

It is where members who have forked out $4,250 watch the football and cricket will enjoy food prepared by internationally respected chef Dennis Leslie and select from a wine list of 160 wines — 158 of which are South Australian and two from Champagne, France.

Dennis Leslie in the Audi Stadium Club restaurant. Picture: Calum Robertson Source: News Corp Australia

If cricket’s committee room in the western stand represents privilege and tradition, this is five-star treatment for corporates on the move who expect nothing but the best.

A sample from the $95 menu: An entree of kangaroo loin salad with fresh fig, goat’s cheese, baby chard and fig vincotto. A main of grilled flat iron steak, adobo pork belly with muntrie jam or a pan fried barramundi with squid ink pasta, mixed seafood, roasted prawn shell sauce and Asian herbs.

Leslie has gone to lengths to use South Australian suppliers, whether it is pork from Port Lincoln, olive oil from Willunga or lamb from Kangaroo Island.

“As much as we can, we will use native Australian ingredients and local suppliers and producers,’’ he said.

But the 19,000-capacity eastern stand, which carries the names of Gavin Wanganeen, Jack Oatey, Max Basheer, Fos Williams and Mark Ricciuto, completes the oval with options for every type of fan.

The final piece of the Oval is striking from the moment you walk through the wall to ceiling glass entrance overlooking Pennington Gardens.

Stadium Management Authority chief executive Andrew Daniels calls the atrium one of the highlights of the revamped oval. Five-star, he likes to call the entrance.

Kim Marshall, Alex Cianca and Hayley Trott sport the Oval’s new corporate look black, green and blue uniforms. Picture: Calum Robertson Source: News Corp Australia

That enormous glass atrium is less formal than the south, but it has a five-star feeling,’’ Daniels said. ``When I first walked in there after it was finished, I thought to myself: `This is exactly what we wanted to achieve, with the views of the Pennington Gardens to the right and the Oval right there to your left.’’

Daniels and the architectural team studied stadium around the world before plans were drawn up for Adelaide Oval’s rebuild, but believe they have created something that is unique in world sporting grounds.

It is the connectivity with the outside that sets Adelaide Oval apart, along with the preserved history through the old scoreboard on the northern mound and historic wall in the western stand, and the pavilionised design that keeps it looking like a cricket ground rather than a coliseum.

“I haven’t seen any ground that has so much access to its surroundings,’’ Daniels said. ``At most great stadiums, you walk in through these walls of concrete and then it all opens up for you.

“Because of the views here, you know you’re in the parklands and you know you’re in the city. I think it’s uniquely South Australian.’’

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 6862315408

[Will]

From the Advertiser:

Showdown at Adelaide Oval set to bring in new money, cultural transformation and vibrancy

VALERINA CHANGARATHIL •
Sunday Mail (SA) •
March 23, 2014 1:07AM

ADELAIDE?S much-anticipated ?before the bounce? moment is here with the promise of new money, cultural transformation and unprecedented vibrancy.

Celebrations to mark the return of thousands of elite footy fans and their footy dollars to the CBD will begin today — ahead of the sold out Saturday Showdown.

The Port Adelaide Football Club’s ‘pep rally’ at Rundle Mall will set the tone for its pre-game marches with fans to the Oval.

The March 29 twilight game will officially unveil the $535 million plus redeveloped Adelaide Oval and $40 million footbridge — expected to generate a $111 million annual increase in economic activity.

TELL US: What has been your commercial experience?

Rundle Mall Management Authority chief executive Ian Darbyshire said pre-game activities planned by the two AFL clubs will help “create a new habit” for South Australians.

“We are excited about building fresh footfalls not just into the mall but the entire CBD.”

Nearly an extra one million people, mostly AFL fans, are expected to flood the city annually, the South Australian Centre for Economic Studies predicts.


Approximately 1,400 staff will be working at the Oval on each game day.

“AFL is going to take the city to another level; combine this with all the other events here, the investment is going to be repaid many times over,” chief executive of the Oval Stadium Management Authority Andrew Daniels said.

The fifth most livable city in the world is open for business as pub owners, hotels, traders, retailers, the casino and even car park owners get set for 22 potentially landmark trading days and nights and other events around it.

General manager of the Australian Hotels Association (SA) Ian Horne said the Showdown will be the “litmus” test.

“There are high expectations and there is also a level of nervousness about it,” he said.

“The first Showdown and possibly the first interstate team’s arrival will be the litmus test to ascertain impact on spends and accommodation bookings.”

Long overdue renovations, worth millions, have been completed, are ongoing or being signed off driven by growing confidence.

Stamford Plaza on North Tce completed its $12 million spruce up last week with the opening of its new La Boca restaurant.



“We have had strong bookings from regional South Australians making the most of the Showdown weekend, and we expect the La Boca to attract a fair share of patronage,” Stamford Plaza general manager Karl Unterfrauner said.

The Cathedral Hotel will kickstart its most significant upgrade in decades by mid-year.

Plans to open up the balcony space, a new balcony bar and a roof-top beer garden are awaiting final council and heritage approvals, manager Russell Hillier said.

“We are expecting healthy returns this year but next year, we’ll be the go-to place for fans.”

Jolley’s Boathouse is understood to have applied for a special licence to benefit from footbridge traffic.

Businesses have tasted increased trade during the Ashes test in December thanks to the best match attendances in 60 years.

Popular joints will open early on game days, have special menus and employ extra casuals.

“We had our best trading day ever during Ashes, but there’s a certain amount of living on hope in Adelaide all the time, so we are excited but cautious,” Lion Hotel co-owner Tim Gregg said.

Adelaide Casino has game night specials for SA supporters during the away and home games as $45 million worth of refurbishments continue.

Hotels broker Darren Steele says the “once a week cream” and shared spoils from the Oval events will help commercial property prices in the CBD and neighbouring areas.

“There’s a big influx of people and chance to share in the spoils but the jury’s still out on this one.”

The cancelled Rolling Stones concert is likely to take place in October.

[Hooligan]

So is there a timetable for the extra rail services on gameday? I checked the Adelaide Metro site and it said was "every 15 minutes" Am i just expected to rock up at a station and just wonder when the train will arrive?

Although i did lol when they referred to 15 minute services as a "very high frequency"

[AdelaideAlive]

just some pics from the website

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[Vee]

I hope more people heed the message to use public transport, including the Footy Express bus, train and tram services, to get to Adelaide Oval during the footy season. AO, by its central location, is much more accessible than AAMI Stadium and more folk will have to leave the car at home or at Park 'n' Ride.

Kudos to the Govt and others who have made it possible to provide free PT options for ticketholders.

There are special match day car park offers at nearby U Park stations for those who may have limited options or special needs and there are accessibility provisions available at the AO.
http://www.adelaideoval.com.au/86/acces ... ation.aspx

As an Adelaide Oval member (all games but unreserved seat), I intend to use public transport for all games - combination of normal PT and Footy Express, depending on the match and the time slot.

My query is on behalf of the elderly (and others who have some mobility impairment). I heard someone on a weekend sports radio program comment that it was a long distance to walk from the Oval to their special Footy Express bus stop on North Terrace. This is quite a stretch (and uphill after the game) for someone in their 70s, 80s and those who are less mobile. (One elderly lady who caught the Footy Express, on her own, to AAMI last year expressed concern to me about walking a longer distance than to the interchange at AAMI).

Check the map to see that some people have got a long distance to walk to the special stops.
https://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/conten ... ap+WEB.pdf

Will the normal PT along King Wm St be in operation (they could catch a bus at stop 1 King Wm Rd outside the Oval) to get off closer to North Tce or is there an option of a shuttle mini bus for the elderly to get to the Express stops on and near North Terrace?

Will the Parade Ground be available for parking for any country buses and or any mini shuttle buses?

[Will]

I found reading this old thread from 2006 fascinating. It regards the proposed upgrade of AAMI Stadium: http://www.sensational-adelaide.com/for ... ?f=8&t=520

[Vee]

Channel Nine will launch a weekly Footy South Australia show on Sunday afternoons this week.

Interesting link in this announcement to the excitement gendered by the redeveloped Adelaide Oval...
“This will be the biggest year ever in South Australian football, with a stadium unmatched in comfort terms which will transform the city".
Not so sure about the timing - early Sunday afternoon and the half hour? time slot will seriously struggle to cover both SA AFL teams, SANFL, ex-SAAFL and regional footy!!! But the focus on SA is welcome.
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South Australian football finally has its own weekly program with Footy SA set to premiere this Sunday at 1.00pm on Channel Nine.

Produced by Crocmedia for the Nine Network, Footy SA will focus on Port Adelaide, Adelaide, the SANFL, the Channel 9 Adelaide Football League (formerly SAAFL), and SA regional footy. The program debuts the day after the new Adelaide Oval is unveiled in Showdown XXXVI.

The Sunday Footy Show’s Craig Hutchison will host Footy SA and be joined each week by a raft of South Australian stalwarts, including Warren Tredrea, Simon Goodwin, Stephen Rowe and Sean Wellman, as well as SANFL legend Neil Balme and a host of other South Australian stars.

The Advertiser’s Michelangelo Rucci will also provide news and views each week with his Rucci’s Rant segment.
Crocmedia executive director Chris Giannopoulos said South Australia deserved its own footy program.

“This will be the biggest year ever in South Australian football, with a stadium unmatched in comfort terms which will transform the city,” Giannopoulos said.
“We want to play our role in bringing South Australian footy to the people. South Australia deserves its own show and its own parochial sense of focus.

“Footy SA will be fun, vibrant, challenging and no doubt confrontational at times, just the way we like it. This program will be all things South Australian footy, and it will unashamedly champion the great football that is played in this state.”

http://mumbrella.com.au/channel-nine-la ... how-216530

[spiller]

Lets hope its better than the old "Crow Show" or "Footy Plus".

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Interesting link in this announcement to the excitement gendered by the redeveloped Adelaide Oval...

I think you meant either engendered or generated.

The project certainly has proven the early naysayers wrong. My only concern is the chaos of the first few big matches when people attempt to use the PT. It will take a few events for people to stop being clueless about the process. Queue the Advertiser letters to the editor complaining.

[Waewick]

Interesting link in this announcement to the excitement gendered by the redeveloped Adelaide Oval...

I think you meant either engendered or generated.

The project certainly has proven the early naysayers wrong. My only concern is the chaos of the first few big matches when people attempt to use the PT. It will take a few events for people to stop being clueless about the process. Queue the Advertiser letters to the editor complaining.

The only naysayers it has proven wrong is that the stadium couldn't be delivered

It has delivered a great stadium however, I still believe there has been an opportunity lost.

[Phantom]

The Sunday Footy Show’s Craig Hutchison will host Footy SA and be joined each week by a raft of South Australian stalwarts, including Warren Tredrea, Simon Goodwin, Stephen Rowe and Sean Wellman, as well as SANFL legend Neil Balme and a host of other South Australian stars.

Awesome to hear! I'm all for a television show like this to air. I really think we need a lot more Adelaide based television productions. From when I grew up, I remember shows like AM Adelaide and Postcards SA being broadcast all the time. I also remember being in the crowd to see Footy Plus being recorded. Those were the days.

But in all seriousness, this sounds like an awesome idea! Glad to hear it's happening.

[Vee]

Interesting link in this announcement to the excitement gendered by the redeveloped Adelaide Oval...

I think you meant either engendered or generated.

Correct, monotonehell. On the ball!!
Meant to write engendered.

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Interesting link in this announcement to the excitement gendered by the redeveloped Adelaide Oval...

I think you meant either engendered or generated.

The project certainly has proven the early naysayers wrong. My only concern is the chaos of the first few big matches when people attempt to use the PT. It will take a few events for people to stop being clueless about the process. Queue the Advertiser letters to the editor complaining.

If the Ashes is anything to go by, there will be hundreds of people on hand to ensure it runs as smoothly as possible. You literally couldn't turn in the wrong direction without being guided by a member of staff as to the correct procedure/direction. I understand there will be about 20,000 more fans heading to this, but I'm positive that there will be minimal issues. Punters just need to be patient.