Wednesday 29 November 2017 will go down in the club’s history as literally a ground breaking day with work beginning at Riverside Dene in Elswick for our year-long build of the Eagles Community Arena (ECA).
The brand new, multi-million pound, purpose-built community sports arena will house our Eagles Community Foundation (ECF), top-flight British basketball with our Esh Group Eagles Newcastle’s BBL home games and many more recreation and education opportunities for the wider community. It is anticipated that more than 11,000 people will be engaged in sport during the ECA’s first year.
The club and foundation would like to thank everyone who sent in messages of congratulations that flew in on hearing the news that development has begun on-site and thanks also go to the North East media for their covered of the announcement and sod-cutting ceremony. Here is a selection of the Facebook posts, tweets and coverage we received:
WOW – Big moment for #BritishBasketball as my hometown team @NewcastleEagle finally start the build for their fabulous near 3,000 Eagles Community Arena. Absolutely thrilled for them, especially CEO Paul Blake. A brilliant moment for UK Ball @fiba pic.twitter.com/aVK3k8XJYi
— Paul Nilsen (@basketmedia365) November 29, 2017
Player-Coach Fab Flournoy's reaction at the ground breaking of the Eagle's new training ground pic.twitter.com/srGI2dQ7FD
— Metro Radio News (@MetroRadioNews) November 29, 2017
Construction getting underway on new home for @NewcastleEagle basketball club. More @BBCLN 6.30pm pic.twitter.com/RSF3ueKTnP
— BBC Look North NE&C (@BBCLN) November 29, 2017
Congratulations on your new home. Good luck with the build, @NewcastleEagle! 🏀⚽️⚫️⚪️ https://t.co/QuNjf4gM4k
— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) November 29, 2017
We're very excited to be working at the new @NewcastleEagle facility! It's great that H F Colton Plant Hire are helping with the future of the Eagles.
More details here:- https://t.co/rteja2c7h1 pic.twitter.com/i3ryUTUaOT
— TheColtonGroup (@TheColtonGroup) November 29, 2017
'This is going to change everything' – @NewcastleEagle break ground on new Elswick arenahttps://t.co/tTWrtLLYBu
— The Chronicle (@ChronicleLive) November 29, 2017
What a great bit of news for a Wednesday morning.
Good luck all at @NewcastleEagle #BritishBasketball https://t.co/NSidBzkw1M
— GB Basketball (@gbbasketball) November 29, 2017
Today marks the start of the new @NewcastleEagle stadium great to be on site with the team for the official sod cutting #Construction pic.twitter.com/BlbM1T3rvF
— Esh Group (@esh_group) November 29, 2017
We're delighted to be working with the Eagles Community Foundation on their new purpose-built sports arena which started on site today #EaglesCommunityArena https://t.co/D6FWBYHkBy
— NewcastleCityCouncil (@NewcastleCC) November 29, 2017
Congratulations to everyone at the Eagles!
— Tesco Bank Community (@TB_Community) November 30, 2017
