# Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium - 46,500 - Port Elizabeth

[Mo Rush]

Matches:

First round
Second Round
Quarter Final
3rd Place

Nelson Mandela Stadium, Port Elizabeth: The stadium, still to be built, will have a capacity of 49,500, be a high-tech, modern venue and will meet every requirement needed to provide a world class venue for the first and second round matches of the 2010 World Cup. The Port Elizabeth Stadium will be located two kilometres from the coast, close to the N2 highway and no more than fifteen minutes' drive from the city's main hotel sector.

[SA BOY]

not bad ish, need to see more to have definitive opinion on this. will this replace boet erasmus stadium eeerrr EP rugby , I mean spears ha ha ha ha stadium

[Durbsboi]

I doubt there will have ruby matches here before the WC, because of the different pitch types, unless they put that half synthetic & half grass outfield, which binds with grass & keeps its soft carpet texture, so that there wont be any bumps & lumps on the pitch.

But all in all, the stadium looks pretty good, nice work Mo

[hsark]

this is amazing one of the best so far ..from the stadium renders i've seen ps poor spears or cats whos going to get the chop oh a sa boi are this going up on sc there arent buildings but great monuments

[dysan1]

rather nice...what is in the area surrounding the stadium?

[dysan1]

no answer to that question? PE people?

I know they had the sod turning ceremony...but when they starting work?

[Mo Rush]

Originally Posted by dysan1

no answer to that question? PE people?

I know they had the sod turning ceremony...but when they starting work?

well they gotta start soon considering the venue is one of the five being proposed to be used during confed cup in june 2009...trevor manuel needs to release the funds so things can get started.

[dysan1]

How do they see it being ready when the plans arent all complete? My dad is involved in this project and even he doesnt know what is going on cos the pe council is freaking useless!!!

please once again can someone tell what area this stadium is? and location in relation to the entertainment, hotels and cbd

[Mo Rush]

Originally Posted by dysan1

How do they see it being ready when the plans arent all complete? My dad is involved in this project and even he doesnt know what is going on cos the pe council is freaking useless!!!

please once again can someone tell what area this stadium is? and location in relation to the entertainment, hotels and cbd

this is true.

very little if any info is available...
http://www.mandelametro.gov.za/documents/page2021.pdf

www.nmbt.co.za...i think there is some update with regards to plans...

[Mo Rush]

Broke a leg finding this

[SA BOY]

thats clever, build a stadium in a very low rise residential suburb?

[dysan1]

Thanx mo!

What area is that? and yeh it does seem like those homes will be awfully close to the stadium! access roads? main ones?

It doesnt look too far from the cbd...anyone from PE here? drives me mad not having someone from there to contribute and give us on the ground detail of whats going on there

[dysan1]

Hey...here are some more images and detail...


Nelson Mandela Bay Arena Port Elizabeth

Location Port Elizabeth, SA
Type of structure Spatial cantilever structure covered with mixed cladding (Aluminium / membrane)
Owner/Client City of Port Elizabeth

Expected completion 2008
Scope of our work Conceptual design, detailed design
Architect BKS - Südafrika / gmp Architekten

[Mo Rush]

haha.been to that site many times...the project must have been hidden...good find dysan

[Mo Rush]

but ive decided to go one better dysan

[dysan1]

oooh...well done...god i cld inspired u onto greater things....

Dont like that it has stairs!! where are the ramps??

And that lake looks like such an underutilised assett! skapili homes next to a wonderful natural lake...or man made who cares

[Mo Rush]

drunk english supporters found at bottom of lake

12 july 2010

[Durbsboi]

LOL!

Zidane to open WC 2010
July 2010



Special head gear will be provided to members of the opening ceremony

[Vanite]

Hey South African soccer lovers. New to this forum. South African living in Vancouver Canada here, but grew up in Pee Eee. I guess that will have to do for now since you don't seem to have any takers actually living there. Will write something in the "Introduce Yourself" thread within the next few days.

The stadium site is on North End Lake in the Korsten area/suburb of PE. From what I remember one side of the lake is residential (poor White in the days of apartheid) and the other side industrial. The lake attracts the odd fisherman or powerboater, but I believe it's quite polluted (PE is an industrial city after all). So I guess the fishing is catch and release. It's not remotely close to the beachfront entertainment and hotel area of the city (which is actually quite nice and laid-back) so pretty much all of the foreign tourists attending matches will have to be bussed in from there. On the other hand it is well situated for long term susutainability since it is closer to the previously black residential areas where, unless things have changed in the last few years, is where many of the soccer supporters are likely to live.

Stadium renders look good. The lake might not be the greatest around but it's great that the sadium is on a body of water.

The World Cup is going to be crazy in SA. It's great that it's in the SA Winter so the regular Summer tourists visit Dec to Mar anyway, then in Jun/Jul you get a boost of up to 500,000 foreign tourists. The atmosphere will be spectacular. Even here in Vancouver the local supporters were out on the streets in full force after their teams won a match in this past World Cup. The Italian supporters especialy just took over the main entertainmant streets downtown after every game Italy won in the scond round. And when they won the final they obviously went beserk. And this is in Vancouver, which is hardly a hotbed of global soccer!

But yes, the area around the PE stadium is nondescript, and they will need to arrange bus transport for many of the fans attending matches. Anybody think there is a massive biz opportunity here? South Africa doesn't have enough luxury busses. Southern Africa doesn't have enough luxury busses. But the UK has loads. They are also right hand drive. So, what about leasing a load of them from UK companies for say three months. Drive them on to whatever cargo ships they'll fit onto, ship them to SA together with parts, maybe service personell an so on, use them for the month and a bit of World Cup madness and ship them back to the UK afterwards. What do you think? Anybody have any idea of the costs of doing this? Also will the SA government allow for temporary importation and not levy duties?

[Pule]

Originally Posted by Vanite

Hey South African soccer lovers. New to this forum. South African living in Vancouver Canada here, but grew up in Pee Eee. I guess that will have to do for now since you don't seem to have any takers actually living there. Will write something in the "Introduce Yourself" thread within the next few days.

The stadium site is on North End Lake in the Korsten area/suburb of PE. From what I remember one side of the lake is residential (poor White in the days of apartheid) and the other side industrial. The lake attracts the odd fisherman or powerboater, but I believe it's quite polluted (PE is an industrial city after all). So I guess the fishing is catch and release. It's not remotely close to the beachfront entertainment and hotel area of the city (which is actually quite nice and laid-back) so pretty much all of the foreign tourists attending matches will have to be bussed in from there. On the other hand it is well situated for long term susutainability since it is closer to the previously black residential areas where, unless things have changed in the last few years, is where many of the soccer supporters are likely to live.

Stadium renders look good. The lake might not be the greatest around but it's great that the sadium is on a body of water.

The World Cup is going to be crazy in SA. It's great that it's in the SA Winter so the regular Summer tourists visit Dec to Mar anyway, then in Jun/Jul you get a boost of up to 500,000 foreign tourists. The atmosphere will be spectacular. Even here in Vancouver the local supporters were out on the streets in full force after their teams won a match in this past World Cup. The Italian supporters especialy just took over the main entertainmant streets downtown after every game Italy won in the scond round. And when they won the final they obviously went beserk. And this is in Vancouver, which is hardly a hotbed of global soccer!

But yes, the area around the PE stadium is nondescript, and they will need to arrange bus transport for many of the fans attending matches. Anybody think there is a massive biz opportunity here? South Africa doesn't have enough luxury busses. Southern Africa doesn't have enough luxury busses. But the UK has loads. They are also right hand drive. So, what about leasing a load of them from UK companies for say three months. Drive them on to whatever cargo ships they'll fit onto, ship them to SA together with parts, maybe service personell an so on, use them for the month and a bit of World Cup madness and ship them back to the UK afterwards. What do you think? Anybody have any idea of the costs of doing this? Also will the SA government allow for temporary importation and not levy duties?

Welcome Vanite,
Well MAN when coming to the issue of luxury busses, I think countries like Mozambique and Namibia can offer help in that regard. MAN have said that the bus sales have increased, well we hope that Greyhound, InterCAPE, SA Roadlink etc will increase their buses and I'm sure they planning to do that. The bus market, and this is a personal thought, is not that lucritive in South Africa as flights are now more cheaper and convinient, I this these guys need to up their standards so that they could be competitive.