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Greenskin":1pie2wa8 said:HC Green":1pie2wa8 said:Argyle-sy":1pie2wa8 said:HC Green":1pie2wa8 said:jerryatricjanner":1pie2wa8 said:I do share those concerns a little. I haven't studied the details, just skipped through the thread but what confuses me is that I thought originally we either had a 10 millionish new grandstand and the city a new ice rink provided by JB as part of other agreements or we had a share of profits on HHP or whatever. It now appears that there is likely to be nil or negligible profits or we have a refurbished rather than new stand but in the form of a 30 year loan rather than provided free? Maybe I am being a bit thick or have missed something and there is a simple explanation? Whatever the ins and outs I look forward to seeing the finished refurbishment and improved facilities as that side of the ground and the facilities in and around it have been so lacking for far too many years now.
The commitment made in 2012 is still current.
What has changed is that the proposed development now will not create the windfall profit that the original development would have. So there won't be enough to fund a new grandstand and therefore Argyle will receive 50% of any windfall profit from the development, which because of the type of development now proposed for HHP won't be very much if anything.
Cue the anti-Brent lot with their "i told you so" comments
The ironic thing is that the people on FB moaning about the proposed HHP development potentially not raising much finance for Argyle are the ones that moaned about the original scheme that would have and were jumping for joy when it didn't go ahead.
The reason that people were "jumping for joy" had nothing to do with any potential income that would have been lost [although IIRC the only income that the club would have received was from the conferencing facility] from the previous proposal and everything to do with some of us believing that Home Park was going to be terminally boxed in with an inadequate capacity especially in comparison to many other former contemporary clubs.
100% correct, Greenskin. The original HHP plans featured a road which would have boxed in the ground and prevented further development on any side, condemning HP to a capacity below 20K in perpetuity. Haven't seen anything suggesting this will be the case with the new plans (so far).