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SISK IN TALKS TO BUILD £ 300M MAN CITY STADIUM EXPANSION
John Sisk & Son is in talks to build the £ 300m expansion of Manchester City Football Club ’ s Ethiad Stadium .
The Premier League winners are planning to add an upper stand , with 7,700 seats , to the North Stand at their stadium in east Manchester . The proposed expansion would also see a 3,000-capacity fan zone with food and drink outlets , as well as a club shop , museum , office space and hotel .
Laing O ’ Rourke had been in advanced talks over building the scheme , but walked away from the project last month , having failed to agree a deal . Manchester City Football Club subsequently reached out to several other contractors .
Sisk is already working on preliminary groundworks relating to the project , but the Irish contractor is now also in advanced talks about delivering the entire scheme , subject to it receiving planning permission from Manchester City Council .
Manchester City Football Club has previously said the project would involve “ over £ 300m investment in the east Manchester area ”, although the value and type of construction contract are unknown .
An official contractor announcement is expected to be made in the autumn , with work starting around November . The works would take the stadium ’ s capacity up to 61,000 .
The football club is hoping to open the newly upgraded North Stand by August 2025 , ready for the 2025 / 26 season , while it expects the hotel and public realm works to be complete by mid-to-late 2026 .
Manchester City revealed plans in 2014 to boost the stadium ’ s capacity to around 60,000 , with its South Stand and North Stand to be enlarged . However , only the proposals to upgrade the South Stand with a third tier have so far come to fruition , with Laing O ’ Rourke completing the 6,000-seat job .