Chief executive Jake Edwards confirms plans for The Accu Stadium to be multi-functional outside of football.
Huddersfield Town chief executive Jake Edwards has outlined the future projects the club will undertake for The Accu Stadium after becoming its sole owners.
The League One club previously held joint ownership of the stadium along with Kirklees Council and Super League side Huddersfield Giants.
The acquisition allows the club to do necessary maintenance and complete upgrades to ensure a sustainable future for the stadium.
"We've got a number of areas in the stadium that still either need to be upgraded or some spaces that aren't used at the moment which we can reimagine," Edwards told BBC Radio Leeds.
"There's potential for a hotel on the site which we think will be really additive to matchday and non-matchday activities here.
"We want this to become the destination in the region for conferences and events, for concerts as well as all the sporting events we can showcase here."
Huddersfield Town have been occupiers of the stadium since 1994 but have never had full ownership until now. Less control has negatively affected the club financially by putting them at a disadvantage to their EFL rivals.
"[Previously] we've not been able to capture naming rights, no concerts and non-matchday revenue either."
Town chairman Kevin Nagle was the main investor who got the deal over the line, but the stadium does not rely on his presence at the club.
"The football club now will wholly own and control the football stadium and that will be the structure moving forward," explained Edwards.
"The site that we sit on, we have a 300 year-long lease now with the council who retain the freehold and within that is a protection that this will always have the football stadium on this land."
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