By David Bond,
Telegraph Last Updated: 12:36am GMT 10/02/2007
Liverpool's
new owners, Tom Hicks and
George Gillett, have
ordered an urgent review
of the club's new £215
million home to see if it
is possible to make the
proposed 60,000-seat
stadium at Stanley Park
even better.
Chief executive Rick
Parry is due to fly to
Dallas next week to meet
Hicks and Gillett, along
with American architects
HKS, who have been asked
to look at Liverpool's
designs to see what
changes can be made.
Among
the ideas considered 'bunker
suites' –
executive boxes built
underground, with
elevators to and from the
seats in the stand above.
The idea was developed by
President George W Bush
when he was joint owner
of the Texas Rangers
baseball team, which
Hicks now owns, to offer
a place for his father,
who was President at the
time, to watch games
securely.
Hicks
revealed: "We met
with HKS yesterday and we
said, 'Here are the
constraints, take a fresh
look and see if there are
other ideas we can
incorporate on the inside
that would make it more
fan-friendly, produce
more revenues and give
more customer
satisfaction', so they
are coming up with ideas.
"What we have to do
is strike a balance
between new ideas and
Yankee ingenuity at the
same time as protecting
the traditions of
Liverpool and Anfield.
We're going to do that
very quickly.
"We
kind of stumbled into the
concept of the bunker
suites. But it's
essentially an
underground living room
where you can go down and
have fine food, fine
wine, big-screen TVs, and
then go up and watch the
pitch live."
Hicks
wants to replicate the
way he has used sports
stadiums to regenerate
run-down areas of Dallas.
He has done it with the
American Airlines Centre,
a £210 million arena
which is home to the
Dallas Stars and
Mavericks.
He also has plans to
redevelop 1.2 million
square feet of land next
to the 49,000-capacity
Arlington stadium into a
leisure, retail and
residential complex in a
£260 million project,
which will open in 2009.
Who
will win sponsorship of
Liverpool's new stadium?
Liverpool's
New Stadium
Singles Only.
Applies to the official
sponsor of the new
Liverpool FC stadium.
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Cola
3
- 1
Budweiser
12
- 1
Wal-Mart
18
- 1
Microsoft
4
- 1
The
Home Depot
12
- 1
Pepsi
18
- 1
Nike
6
- 1
General
Motors
14
- 1
Starbucks
33
- 1
McDonalds
8
- 1
American
Airlines
16
- 1
Disney
100
- 1
FedEx
8
- 1
Apple
16
- 1
CNN
500
- 1
ebay
10
- 1
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