council want to talk to Town about new stadium

What people say publicly and what they say privately are often completely different. It wouldn't surprise me if work is going on behind the scenes to identify possible sites, identify what, if anything, can be done to bring Blundell Park into the modern era and also, how any new stadium is going to be funded.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

An example. Ely is a small cathedral city of 20,000. It’s about 15 miles north of Cambridge of the A10. There is a shiny new leisure village complex on the A10 bypass with a 6 screen Cineworld cinema, 4 chain restaurants (including Nandos), a couple of drive-thru takeaways, a new family pub restaurant & a drive thru chain coffee shop.

Ely. It has a populations only a few thousand more than Louth.

So, if Ely can build and sustain something like that why can’t Grimsby?

Massive tourism? Scenic?

Quoted from GollyGTFC

I had my first ever Nando’s at the Earl’s Court restaurant before the famous Danny Coyne inspires 1-0 smash and grab at QPR in 2001.

I had a cheeky Nando's once.
It called me a big fat baldy so I haven't been back.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

What people say publicly and what they say privately are often completely different. It wouldn't surprise me if work is going on behind the scenes to identify possible sites, identify what, if anything, can be done to bring Blundell Park into the modern era and also, how any new stadium is going to be funded.

Agreed. Fenty boxed himself in speaking publicly but not having the traction. I would expect the new owners will probably have it on their agenda, but only publicly say so if they genuinely believe it can be delivered.

Quoted from blundellpork

Agreed. Fenty boxed himself in speaking publicly but not having the traction. I would expect the new owners will probably have it on their agenda, but only publicly say so if they genuinely believe it can be delivered.

Since they announced their plans to build a stadium publicly before owning the club and then immediately changed their mind once they got control, I'm a bit confused by this statement.

That was Shutes wasn’t it?

Quoted from pen penfras

That's not true. Cinema demand has been consistent over the last 20 years. It's only since covid that it has been hit. That may have driven a desire to stay home rather than go out, but it's too hard to say right now. If the industry goes back to the same as it was before with films being released to cinema first, then it will recover. If Disney etc keep releasing them on their own platform or both at the same time, then it's likely to take a hit.

Parkway has been fairly busy whenever I've visited, although it's been a couple of years. I just wish they'd put some better food around it than KFC, McDonalds and Taco Bell. More people would go if they could make a proper evening of it than having to drive all over the place to have an evening out.

I've read pro Cinema Build from various, and whilst I'm not against it, why would I be?, I just don't see the economics for the build. Indeed the "what about this" and "what about that" arguments fail to understand the predicament this area is in.
Xscape in Castleford, part of the Wakefield Borough pop 359,000, NE Lincs 159,000. It gets worse, draw a circle of 11 miles with Xscape center, 100,000 are added,  same with Grimsby and we add 2900 from Caistor, why? Because half the circle is water, the rest is spuds and cabbages.
Lincoln has been put forward as another " what about". Well, Lincoln has a Uni (actually 2 Unis and a college) and it's estimated that £430 to £500 million a year is added to the economy of Lincoln. 17,000 students buy a lot of pizzas, kebabs, and beer. Lincoln is the fastest growing City in the UK.
Grimsby is at the end of a Cul-de-sac of the A180, it has to run much much faster just to keep up. I hope that the Freeport project will be something that will inject money and enthusiasm into the area but we do need a council that will be up for it and positive.

Seems to me that we need to build a university, 5-10 years down the line the town/ area would be flourishing.

Quoted from GrimPol

I've read pro Cinema Build from various, and whilst I'm not against it, why would I be?, I just don't see the economics for the build. Indeed the "what about this" and "what about that" arguments fail to understand the predicament this area is in.
Xscape in Castleford, part of the Wakefield Borough pop 359,000, NE Lincs 159,000. It gets worse, draw a circle of 11 miles with Xscape center, 100,000 are added,  same with Grimsby and we add 2900 from Caistor, why? Because half the circle is water, the rest is spuds and cabbages.
Lincoln has been put forward as another " what about". Well, Lincoln has a Uni (actually 2 Unis and a college) and it's estimated that £430 to £500 million a year is added to the economy of Lincoln. 17,000 students buy a lot of pizzas, kebabs, and beer. Lincoln is the fastest growing City in the UK.
Grimsby is at the end of a Cul-de-sac of the A180, it has to run much much faster just to keep up. I hope that the Freeport project will be something that will inject money and enthusiasm into the area but we do need a council that will be up for it and positive.

You are right, we're hemmed in and it hinders us in every possible way.

But that's not an excuse to just give up.  The area is dying a painful and slow death, we're not even treading water.  This is bigger than the football club, not doing anything simply isn't an option for this area.  

We might have missed the boat over Lincoln in getting a Uni, we might have missed funding opportunities that Doncaster gobbled up, but that's the problem.  We've missed countless opportunities in our past, that has to stop.  The attitude of we're too small, we've already got one, people won't use it etc. is what will always hold this area back.

Other opportunities are there for us to develop yet we're doing nothing about it.  The biggest opportunity we could ever have is the most under utilised part of this Town, the water set-up.  From Corp-Bridge right up to the Fitties is an absolute gold-mine of prosperity just waiting to be tapped into.  There aren't many areas in the country that have that natural resource for development, growth and employment.  

Quoted from diehardmariner

You are right, we're hemmed in and it hinders us in every possible way.

But that's not an excuse to just give up.  The area is dying a painful and slow death, we're not even treading water.  This is bigger than the football club, not doing anything simply isn't an option for this area.  

We might have missed the boat over Lincoln in getting a Uni, we might have missed funding opportunities that Doncaster gobbled up, but that's the problem.  We've missed countless opportunities in our past, that has to stop.  The attitude of we're too small, we've already got one, people won't use it etc. is what will always hold this area back.

Other opportunities are there for us to develop yet we're doing nothing about it.  The biggest opportunity we could ever have is the most under utilised part of this Town, the water set-up.  From Corp-Bridge right up to the Fitties is an absolute gold-mine of prosperity just waiting to be tapped into.  There aren't many areas in the country that have that natural resource for development, growth and employment.  

Well written, and yes I only looked at the negatives, to be fair, the water leisure industry is untapped and hopefully ready for expansion.