PA Pride: The majority of people who have already brought apartments in the Arsenal Stadium Redevelopment are either rich or dedicated Arsenal fans.
The site for the future Olympic Park is split up into four sections acros a massive site that is essentially a mix of contaminated industrial land, warehouses, small industrial units, an immense railway yard and depot. All is going and being replaced by:
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The Olympic Park: A new collection of buildings that will be at the core for the 2012 games!
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Olympic Park: Europe's largest urban park for over 100 years, it will be larger than Central Park.
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Stratford International Station: An immense 1km long station that will cater for 300kph 400m long passenger trains (2nd longest in the world behind only Shinkansens) into London and to the European continent. Train journey times to Central London: 5mins, to Central Paris: 2hrs.
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Stratford City: Immense new development that will take over 20 years to complete that will be the new home for thousands, develop into the third major retail centre of London (ie the new Kensington/Oxford Road) and in the process becoming the 4th major CBD for London. A few skyscrapers by Richard Rogers, multiple 50-100m towers and it will be the Olympic Village.
In the below picture you can see what is the Olympic Park. The actual park itself winds along the course of all the Olympic venues but also carries on north of the image. Stratford International Station is the immense 'cut' going right to left in the centre right of the image. Stratford City is the 'tear drop' surrounding the station, the section to the north in colour and parts to the right of the tear-drop. Stratford Station which is the station for the DLR, Central and Jubilee Underground Lines, Silverlink Metro and One Railway is the rectangular site to the bottom right of the tear-drop. It is only 3 stops to Canary Wharf on the Jubilee Line.
