Leeds Arena

Work was today due to start on the re-development of an ageing Leeds car park as part of the city’s concert arena scheme. The Woodhouse Lane multi-storey has been earmarked as one of the main car parks that will serve the 13,500-capacity arena when it opens in 2013.

BAM Construction has been selected to build the Populous-designed venue, having already carried out preparatory work at the Claypit Lane site. [Source Leisureweek Feb 2011]

The diggers have moved in to start construction work on the new £60m Leeds Arena.

The 13,500-capacity concert and events venue at Claypit Lane, Leeds will take two years to build.

[Source BBC News 18th February 2011]

YORKSHIRE entrepreneur Jan Fletcher has begun the latest stage of her legal action against council bosses in Leeds over their handling of the city's concert arena project.

The local authority today said Ms Fletcher's claim was "desperate and vexatious".

[The Guardian 4th November 2010] The new Leeds Arena will lead the economic regeneration of Leeds city centre and be the catalyst for hundreds of millions of pounds of new investment, a senior councillor has claimed.

February start for Leeds Arena construction (Businessdesk.com) 28th October 2010.

Councillors will discuss the next stage of the Arena project and will be asked to approve the scheme's final designs and to allow the construction contract to be let at a meeting on Wednesday.

The detailed designs and costs of the Leeds Arena are to go before the city council's executive board on Wednesday. Senior councillors meeting to discuss the scheme will be told the project is progressing well and due to be completed in 2012. [Source: BBC News 03 11 2010] More

Yorkshire Evening Post - October 2010

Council chiefs today reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring Leeds residents benefit from the training opportunities offered by the city's new arena.

A report to Leeds City Council's executive board today set out the timescale for the £80m scheme in more detail than ever before. The report also says the venue – due to open in early 2013 – will have 24 executive suites and more than 100 concession, merchandise and retail "points of sale".

Yorkshire Evening Post - October 2010 By Staff Copy Councillors have given the go-ahead to refurbish Woodhouse Lane multi-storey car park to serve the new Leeds Arena. The face-lift, expected to ... (more)

Work has started at the site of one of Leeds's biggest economic projects.

Hoardings are going up and sewer and drains are being diverted as the site for the new 13,500 capacity Leeds Arena is prepared.

The work at the site is the first building work to take place since the demolition of the Brunswick building in 2009.