The redevelopment of Nottingham Forest’s City Ground will involve around £100m of investment.
Plans to transform the Reds’ home into a 38,000 capacity stadium were unveiled earlier this year, with work set to start in the summer of 2020.
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A figure of how much funding will be involved was revealed, though details about the sources of that are still being looked into.
The club have been visiting other venues to “steal ideas”, including Premier League side Tottenham Hotspurs’ recently-opened Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
“We have been making site visits to other stadiums, be they football, cricket or rugby, just to look at what the best is so that we can steal ideas from all of them,” said Forest’s chief commercial officer David Cook.
“We can hopefully take the best bits and apply it to what we are doing here.”
Cook says a lot of groundwork has been going on behind the scenes since the City Ground announcement in February.
“You can probably gather that we do not like to talk too much, unless there is something to say,” he said.
“But a heck of a lot of work is going on. We have been doing a lot of work with the local planners.
“We have started consultations with supporters’ groups, with our existing hospitality members… and what you will see over the next few weeks are a series of events involving these groups.
“We will sit down with all of them and we will speak to local residents, of course.
“Anyone we believe has an interest in this or anyone who will be impacted by the development, we will have frank discussions with them.”
The redevelopment will see the Peter Taylor Stand rebuilt to cater for a capacity of at least 10,000 fans, and will include new state of the art dressing rooms, a museum, club shop, executive boxes and media suites.
And improvements will be made to the other three sides of the ground, with the Bridgford Stand also extended.
