New Everton stadium could be worth £300m to city, says council

Ged Fitzgerald, chief executive of Liverpool Council, has said that a proposed new stadium for English Premier League football club Everton could be worth as much as £300m (€335.2m/$367.8m) to the city.
 
Speaking at an event earlier this week, Fitzgerald, quoted by the Liverpool Echo newspaper, said that the stadium and associated developments would “create an anchor point” at the Bramley Moore Dock waterfront site.
 
The club is also said to be considering a location in Stonebridge Cross, with the club’s major shareholder Farhad Moshiri having visited both sites in recent weeks.
 
“We obviously now wait to see what conversations take place between Everton and Peel, the owners of the site, and see whether a deal can be done,” Fitzgerald told the newspaper.
 
“I think there’s some really exciting potential opportunities for that stadium in that location. That itself would create a massive magnet and anchor point for the regeneration of the wider North Liverpool area and would be a fantastic destination and attraction in its own right.
 
“But I think from a regeneration point of view it’s a fantastic opportunity.”