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Originally Posted by eastsussexred
To be fair, Ken Skates has been involved in this for a long time.
We started a campaign to save the land behind the kop back in May 2015, which was independent of the Trust and club, because the land itself was politically and commercially sensitive.
We tried to get a number of different organisations interested in buying the land, who were sympathetic to the club, in the hope that at least a part of the land could be saved and a number of fans (independent of the club for the reasons I have mentioned) even met one of these organisations at The Racecourse, but after consultation within, that organisation decided that the land was not suitable. From memory, I think that we received pledges of up to £20k from a number of fans, but as the land was up for £1million, then this was obviously not enough to move forward and so a number of us started to lobby WAG, the council, FAW and the media etc and received responses from Ken Skates and Mike Williams amongst others. They said that they believed that the land should be saved and that they would do whatever they could to make this happen. I seem to remember Ken Skates also said that he was doing whatever he could to save the land in a newspaper interview back in 2015. I think that the club and trust were in a difficult position back then and were not able to make their position known in public as they have needed to remain a lot more discrete for obvious reasons.
With the Wrexham Gateway being such a large project, I would imagine that this has taken a great deal of work by a lot of people, both inside and outside of the club to bring to this to fruition.
Great news for sure.
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I just hope they keep Wrexham town planners well away from the project!
Over the years they have managed to take a great little market town with some lovely fasades (like around the old veg market) and turned it into a souless place and where you have to be a long distance walker to get from one shopping area to the next............