The new Benito Villamarín, with a capacity of 60,379 spectators and whose design was presented this Tuesday to the Seville City Council, will generate between 12 and 20 million euros per year for Real Betis in terms of tickets and shopping area, excluding the surrounding area. places , and will force the team to play the next two seasons at La Cartuja Stadium during the two years of construction.
This action will start next summer with an investment between 80 and 100 million euros and, in accordance with the winning project of the international competition awarded to the Cordovan architect Rafael de la-Hoz and the American studio that Gensler, it will include a new Desire tier, the action on the exterior and interior elements in Fondo and Gol Norte -inaugurated in 2000- and Sur -opened in 2017-, a roof and the urban and commercial planning of the environment .
In his presentation in the Columbus Hall of the town hall of Seville, the president of Betis, Ángel Haro, referred to the journalists these figures of “an important project for the club and for the city as a whole” after an action in which he coincides with the mayor from Seville, José Luis Sanz, that the béticos “deserve a stadium that matches their standards” and that it will be “a new icon” of the Andalusian capital.
“We did not want to build only a sports area, but we chose a new icon of the city that will generate new leisure, commercial and endowment activities for the district (of Heliópolis), a modern stadium, which will be an example . of sustainability, it will be active every day of the year and will be a source of pride for Beticismo, for Seville and for all Spanish football”, he highlighted.
Haro also emphasized that with this “great project, the flagship of the club’s 2022-26 Strategic Plan”, Betis will carry out “the main work that will be carried out in Seville in the coming years” and it will consist of ” many jobs” ..
For his part, the mayor emphasized that the new Benito Villamarín “is called to be not only a symbol of this club and an infrastructure with many souls”, but that he and his government will work “so that it is, in the least possible time, a new icon” and a “tourist attraction of the city”, which will integrate and improve the neighborhood of Heliópolis.
“It is the will and commitment of this government that this project will become a reality as soon as possible,” Sanz insisted, recalling that it began in 2004, when an agreement was signed to PGOU built in 2006 “the land of the stadium and its environs”, something they have now managed to “unblock” ending this “legal uncertainty that has lasted seventeen years”.
Source: La Verdad
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