Meis ready to paint another city BLUE

HILL Dickinson Stadium architect Dan Meis wants to work on a new project in English football.

- By CHRIS BEESLEY

Dan Meis at Hill Dickinson Stadium in August: inset below, Tom Brady

HILL Dickinson Stadium architect Dan Meis wants to work on a new project in English football.

And it could be even bigger than Everton’s new home on the Mersey waterfront after declaring his interest to win the contract for Birmingham City’s ambitious plans to construct a 62,000-capacity replacement for St Andrew’s.

The Championship club’s owners, NFL legend Tom Brady and Tom Wagner, from Knighthead, want to build a new Sports Quarter in Birmingham, with billions earmarked for a vast project which includes a sports campus and training facilities and at the heart of it would be a new stadium, more than twice the size of City's home since 1906 which holds 29,409.

Meis, who was speaking in the city at the SVB conference at Villa Park, home of Birmingham's neighbours Aston Villa, announced that his firm AECOM is “in the hunt” for both the new Quarter and stadium project.