Punt Road Re-Development

[Mr Brightside]

I think even THE FORCE might be with you on this one Red :clap

It always has been Carnoustie. Always has been....

Now dont go blowin your barnBUGLE artyfest too early Sawgrass

 

[Ian4]

i'm very happy to hear about this potential redevelopment of the social club. lets face it, it's run down. i recently watched melbourne victory play and i went into the lexus centre for pre-game drinks. they have a beautiful spacious and modern bar with beer garden. it was very impressive.

if we rebuilt our social club, we could open it up any time there is a sporting event at the MCG (even if richmond isn't playing). If you can't have pokies you could have a Bistro, TAB, pool tables, big screen, etc, etc. we could make money off opposition supporters...

 

[1965]

 

[geoffryprettyboy]

The upgrade is set to begin sometime in the next few years.

Pending approval of course.  One more hurdle to jump, and PRR-D is on it's way.  As others have suggested, the PR precinct requires another major sponsor to be named after.  

 

[tigersnake]

The private enterprise I’m talking about goes beyond just the naming rights of the Punt Road “complex” - if I can call it that.

What about the opportunity to leverage off private enterprise actually trading and doing business there under lease from Richmond ? Maybe the developments at Punt Road won’t be big enough to accommodate that, but that’s more along the lines of what I was thinking.

As I’ve posted numerous times, I’ve always had ideas in my mind that the Punt Road “complex” had massive commercial potential. 

Do you mean like the NSW govt has done with its new schools (PPP)?  Build them, look after all its maintenance, cleaning cost, security, etc and charge the govt a monthly fee for x years and after the lease if finalised the govt buys back its schools.

No. I’m talking about a central feature or attraction (in this case the new Punt Road oval with its new gym, new RFC museum etc.) housing and leveraging off external or self developed commercial businesses around it. I’ll give you an example.

Overseas, a lot of musuems rather than just hoping people are interested enough in coming along to their museum, draw and benefit from a larger audience by also having other attractions. It might be shops, cafes, whatever. I’m not saying the Punt Road developments should also have cafes, shops specifically, but do you get my drift ?

In perhaps its grandest scale, you see other applications of this sort of principle at shopping malls. Whereas 30 years ago they just used to have a supermarket and a few piddly shops, they’ve now grown into these larger all encompassing sites that house everything from supermarkets to movie theatres to gyms, to huge retail outlets like Harvey Norman. New shopping malls attract infinitely more people to them now than they ever used to and the retailers within all benefit from one another’s existence.

I would have thought that given the Punt Road precinct is one of the busiest in Australia and also has the added advantage of millions of people going in and out of the MCG and nearby tennis centre, there is enormous opportunity for this type of application to be successful. Realistically though, the problems are, that it takes a lot of business acumen and grunt to develop, there’s the environmental issues to overcome (e.g. the Melbourne City Council, the protected land around that area etc.) and just the lack of land to work with in general and the access in and out.

Still, a smaller application of this approach could still work. Hypothetically speaking, how would you feel if say the development of Punt Road included the re-location of the AFL Hall of Fame and Sensation ? Its struggling big time due to its poor location and high rental at present. What better place to have it than just outside the gates of the MCG….at the Punt Road “complex” ? Heh heh heh… :hihi

I agree, this has come up before. It would take money I know, and a lot more than $1.5 mill, but the social club should be knocked over, build a new nice one incororating the Tigers museum, merchandise shop (Richmond focus but include other clubs stuff), maximise the location and the view over the ground, maybe incorporate the AFL hall of fame somehow as you say, would have to be in an annex of some kind to symbolically separate it. Think big, build it good, and they would come.

You've got Richmond station, Puntraod traffic, RFC history, the MCG, the Tennis Centre close, it seems so bloody obvious.

 

[Redford]

Theoretically, a properly conceived development should make the Lexus Centre look a miniscule effort in comparison.

 

[johnson2richo2003]

Theoretically, a properly conceived development should make the Lexus Centre look a miniscule effort in comparison.

May i suggest the social club be the shape of a Tiger ;D
The Tigers head will be where all the football dept will be situated[with the tigers head looking over puntroad oval] and board room
The midrift will be split into halves.Left half.merchandise.membership etc.
2nd half.Gaming and social area.
The tigers rear end will be reserved for opposition supporters equiped with an eject button out of you know where ;D which is most appropriate :rotfl :rotfl :rotfl
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

 

[Anduril]

Must be Friday!

 

[TigerForce]

I hoping that John So comes to the party.  My demon mate who often attends their AGM, advised that  Mr So has provided the demons (which he is a member) with grants from the Melbourne city council for their new admin development site.

Could happen considering Mr So is Asian and Asians live in Richmond.

 

[Ian4]

I hoping that John So comes to the party.  My demon mate who often attends their AGM, advised that  Mr So has provided the demons (which he is a member) with grants from the Melbourne city council for their new admin development site.

Could happen considering Mr So is Asian and Asians live in Richmond.

we should really be trying to tap into the asian market

 

[feisty tige]

Hawthorn moved out in their 100th year....

I wonder if history will repeat? Nah, it couldn't, could it?

 

[meltiger]

Hawthorn moved out in their 100th year....

I wonder if history will repeat? Nah, it couldn't, could it?

Not @ Richmond

We're older than that remember

 

[pahoffm]

I hoping that John So comes to the party.  My demon mate who often attends their AGM, advised that  Mr So has provided the demons (which he is a member) with grants from the Melbourne city council for their new admin development site.

Could happen considering Mr So is Asian and Asians live in Richmond.

we should really be trying to tap into the asian market

Steve, have you rung the Hanshin Tigers yet?