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Manchester City to honour stadium pioneer Bernstein

 

English Premier League football club Manchester City will name a pathway outside its Etihad Stadium home after Sir Howard Bernstein, the former chief executive of Manchester City Council.

Bernstein, who provided the opening address at TheStadiumBusiness Design and Development Summit 2016 at Emirates Old Trafford, retired from public office in March.

He was a prominent figure behind the development of Manchester City’s home stadium, which was built to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Sir Howard Bernstein Way will start at the south-east perimeter of the stadium will run to the City Football Academy.

Manchester City’s chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, said: “Sir Howard Bernstein’s passion for the city of his birth, combined with his unrivalled vision, humanity and humility, have undoubtedly helped to shape Manchester into what it is today.

“All of us who love Manchester, whether lifelong Mancunians, or relative newcomers to the city like me, owe him a substantial debt of gratitude.

“There is no more fitting a place to recognise his contribution than in the footway and bridge that links the stadium, whose creation was instigated by him, to the City Football Academy and surrounding community developments that were fundamentally supported by him.”