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Originally Posted by nick_taylor
By all accounts, a Wembley at Birmingham, probably wouldn't have met these criteria meaning it would had to have had even MORE public financing to support it. Fact is, what are you going to build around Birmingham International? Apartments - no way, so it would be warehousing, retail outlets or office parks - no way near as lucrative as having an entire new residential quarter, with a new commercial centre around a new square equivalent in size to Leicester Square.
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But Wembley Stadium is surrounded by warehousing and industrial units.
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I'd want that to happen to be a wakeup call that you're no more than a parasitic organism leaching off the south and London.
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You go on about anti-London feelings by Northerners but comments like that are just as bad.