From Weasteland to tourist attraction: Everton’s new home to the change of turbo load
The builders worked on the signage at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Monday, while renovation work was carried out in one of the bars to Everton’s great new soil. It would be a predictable scene of the final preparations for the first league game on the £ 800 -MIO. -T event, but for an unusual sight in this part of the city: vacationer.
They were cruise passengers to be precise, dozens of them. Instead of shaking off the royal princess and turning right towards Royal Albert Dock and city center when she turned into Liverpool, as you could expect, they were left and walked along the Regent Road for 20 to 25 minutes to visit the best newcomer in the Premier League. They would also have sailed past the Mersey River. No wonder that Everton is selling stadium and dockland tours on board cruise ships in the near future.
Advertising
Related: Premier League 2025-26 Preview No. 9: Everton
Not too long ago, they would have advised tourists to go through the industrial wasteland, which was and is still in this part of North Liverpool in many sections. Nothing to see, apart from scrap metal dealers, disused docks and the empty shells of pubs that were once beaten with shops. They either drove through the Regent Road or worked there. But like the builders, the bars, the new apartments and even something as simple as the new street lighting, life is slowly returning to this area. The Everton Stadium is recognized by the effects of the Titanic Hotel and the creative in the Ten Street area, is the catalyst for this change.
It was a tedious journey to get to this point, and one that almost finance Everton. But 22 years after the collapse of Everton’s dreams, moving into a first-class Waterfront stadium on the Kings Dock, and eight years, since Bramley-Moore Dock was first identified as the preferred place of the club for a new home, the Saga will be worth it on Sunday when the Hill Dickinson stage organizes its first competition game.
In the run-up to an important opportunity for Everton and the city of Liverpool, it was criticized that the construction of the UNESCO World Heritage Site for Everton and the city of Liverpool was cost. The criticism is spectacularly laid, and not only because the UNESCO warned the Liverpool City Council of inconspicuous developments that had been built long before Everton’s proposal was built on the ground. Bramley-Moore Dock was given up for decades before Everton’s arrival.
Advertising
In order to give an idea of neglect, there were 12 non -exploded air defense shells from the Second World War at the end of the dock when Everton took possession of the location. And Bramley-Moore could only be viewed by a closed gate at that time. The status of the World Heritage Site did nothing for this dockland. Now there is a stadium that was designed by the US architect Dan Meis, to reflect tradition and modern, four brick stalls in harmony with nearby warehouses that are crowned by a futuristically curved roof roof on the banks of the Mersey.
The ship has finally occurred for the owners of the Bramley Moore Hotel, who has survived in magnificent isolation for years before it has won a neighbor of the Premier League, although it now has a company from several bars who recently appeared opposite the stadium. One is the terrace in which a tire company was native to 18 months ago when the new owners stood out a big change in the three -story rooms. It will employ 28 employees on Sunday, involved personnel and security.
The Liverpool Waterfront North Council City Councilor Dave Hanratty expressed concerns at a recently approved meeting that “the only investment that we are currently receiving is the premises of alcohol licenses”. A company had a license that was rejected at the meeting at the meeting, but Becki Heron, manager of the terrace, says: “I think this area will be a separate village.
“Developers bought a lot of land to turn into residential buildings, but the people who managed to grab a place here will soon be shops in this block.
Advertising
“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think we will get a brand & Spencer opening next door, but the area will receive a license for the orientation of concerts that will also help.”
Heron speaks on the roof of the terrace, which offers a breathtaking view of the Hill Dickinson Stadium and the Outdoor Plaza, which can hold events for 17,000 people. The bar also overlooks the huge wastewater treatment work alongside Everton’s new home. Gentrification will have its limits here. Hanratty wants the Council to ensure that “we have the right balance” in an area that contains plans for Liverpool waters, the long-awaited development system of the landowner peel Holdings.
However, only a few people live near the residents of the tobacco camp in Stanley Dock near the Hill Dickinson Stadium. The floor is located in one of the most disadvantaged stations in the country, but there are development plans for the area between Bramley-Moore Dock and the city center, and the hope is that Everton’s presence will accelerate it. The American owner of the club, the Friedkin group, also has eyes on the development of Nelson Dock next door.
Everton has carried out three test events to get a security certificate for the event location 52,769 capacity (it would be 52,888 before the seats were removed to record TV cameras and to install more obstacles between home and away subjects). The main problems in the stadium were large queues to get into food and drinks. The shares were low in the test event near the capacity against Roma and there were delays in the turnstile caused by fans did not download the tickets in advance. Both problems can be ironed over time.
Advertising
Outside of stadium traffic, the biggest headache has caused itself, but thanks to more shuttle buses, more frequent and larger trains and new parking measures there was a noticeable improvement for the Roma game. “I think we have a good place, but we will concentrate even more on improving in the next few weeks and beyond,” admitted Liam Robinson, chairman of the council. “I am sure that the little things will continue to appear in the season because it is new for everyone.”
Bill Kinsella took part in the first two test events and has a season ticket for the South, a steep bench of 14,000 seats that are the end of home. “It is a fantastic stadium that is so modern,” said Evertonian von Bootle. “It is what the club needs to achieve more income to fight the top six and get us into a higher bracket.” Kinsella was there on Monday to buy an Everton baseball cap to protect his head while it was medically treated. “Sunday will be a historical moment for the club,” he added. “I am not sure what the atmosphere will look like because people will get used to a new stadium, but it will pick up in the course of the season. Everything is new.
“People say:” What about transport? “But in the end I live in boots and can get a bus or train while I am a bit unable to abolish my family with the club as far as possible, and I will go from there, I have a lot of buddies that will be to take care of myself.
Everton will celebrate his first league game in the Hill Dickinson Stadium, but it is aware that they cannot distract from serious business to win a Premier League game. The manager, David Moyes, said before the opening game of the season against Leeds on Monday that Everton, although it was excellent for the construction of a new stadium, now is to build a football club in it. “We are far away at the moment,” admitted Moyes. The defeat of his team in Elland Road confirmed just as much.
Advertising
But Hill Dickinson Stadium heralds a fresh start for a football club and an area that has seen better days. Everton’s first league game at Anfield was a 2-1 win against Accrington (not Stanley) on September 8, 1888. Her first league game in Goodison Park was a 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest on September 3, 1892. Sunday, August 24, 2025, a new chapter starts.