willow6666 wrote:
The fact is that there has been a bidding process for a 25 year lease from Haringey Council to run New River. Five bidders, including Haringey Borough FC, who have lost/surrendered the lease on their ground on White Hart Lane. Skolars are involved with a bid with Fusion who currently run New River on a 3 year lease. Fusion have been offered preferred bidder status, time to try and sort out the details.
25 year lease is probably do-able regards term for a stadium or reassurance for an investor but to invest the level of funding required for a redevelopment you would want something a tad longer if you could get it or at least some guarantees. The leisure/recreation use on the site is likely to be protected if it has one and I can't see that changing.
If a 12k stadium how would it be built? If there is some agreement that athletics continues there I would at least want some of the infield uses moved so the pitch length and in-goals could be sorted out. If athletics isn't there long term it certainly opens up possibilities to build a proper stadium.
As for a merger I'm not so sure, though a joint agreement where Skolars keep their identity would be preferable. That said 'Skolars' for the U19s sounds appropriate (apologies all round for that).
Is this real though? I thought this idea had been dismissed a long time ago.