Sports Minister Heinz-Christian Strache (FPÖ) is known to be striving to renew the current Ernst Happel Stadium. The “Multifunctional Arena” project has apparently also met with approval from ÖSV President Peter Schröcksnadel.
“The plan provides that there will even be a large hill, that everything will be built into a large facility,” Schröcksnadel was quoted in the Kurier (Sunday edition).
According to Schröcksnadel, he knew that the project had a lot of imagination and would be expensive. One consideration is the – bizarre-looking – plan that an architect had already drawn up in 2013, but which is worth considering: “Imagine: a ski jumping in front of 60,000 people in Vienna, you could even drive a parallel slalom there”.
Vice-Chancellor Strache had recently given the TV channel “SchauTV” a more concrete definition of the plans. The multifunctional arena is to cost around 400 million euros.
180 million of these are to come from a private investor, the rest would be shared between the federal government and the City of Vienna. A concrete project proposal is currently being worked on.