Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
I find this thread really depressing. I suppose it's because I agree with the doubters. I like the idea of moving the offices to Gardyne and having the day to day facilities on one modern fit for purpose site.
My query is if you take out all the offices and training facilities from Dens what could you do with the space? Bigger hospitality rooms? A better match day experience? Improve the Main Stand?
Maybe holding on to Dens is a more viable plan B now that Gardyne is in place?
This problem would never have happened if Tim Keyes and John Nelms had put into practice what they preached.
They should have purchased Dens Park from Sandeman Properties Limited which they said that they would do when they acquired a majority shareholding in August 2013.
I blame Ms Maggie Chapman who is now a Green List MSP for the Campy Nou fiasco.
Ms Chapman was instrumental in organising groups to object to the new Regional Performance Centre at Caird Park which was a joint venture between Dundee City Council and Dundee Football Club.
Thanks to her rabble rousing the project was cancelled and less than three weeks after it was abandoned on 24th June 2016 the directors of Dark Blue Properties Holdings Limited purchased the former NCR Camperdown grounds for £1,296,000 despite the site having been advertised for sale for five years with no one interested.
Ms Chapman is guilty of double standards.
She was dead against the Regional Performance Centre at Caird Park but she was happy for the ‘watered down’ version of the RPC to be built at Caird Park because it contained a district heating scheme powered by ground source heating .
However this is a con as only the sports centre is heated using ground source heating with none of the houses nearby district of Mill of Mains receiving heating from this district heating scheme.
District heating schemes are nothing knew in Dundee as houses the Logie Housing Scheme and Stirling Park were before the Second World War heated by a district heating scheme.