It's back to work on Ashburton Grove site
By Paul Thomson, Evening Standard
22 January 2004
Building work has secretly restarted on Arsenal's new £400million stadium at Ashburton Grove.
Two tower cranes have been erected at the north London site with a third due to go up on Saturday.
The new work would appear to indicate the club are close to securing the £270m funding they need to finance the stadium.
Main contractor Sir Robert McAlpine has also reopened its site office and around 50 people are currently working on the job, according to industry magazine Construction News.
One worker said: "It doesn't look much like a stadium job at the moment but people have been put on long-term contracts so someone is confident it's all going ahead."
The site was mothballed last April when Arsenal ran into funding problems for the 60,000 seat stadium.
An Arsenal spokesman said: "Site enabling work has been carried out and I understand it is a bit more than preparatory works going on at the site.
"There will be an announcement over funding imminently and we are very confident about that."
McAlpine declined to comment, referring all queries to Arsenal.
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