Editor’s note: This is an updated version of an article published in June, reflecting the progress made in the period since on the redevelopment of Selhurst Park and its Main Stand.Crystal Palace fans arriving at Selhurst Park on Friday for the first time this season will be greeted by evidence of change.Palace host Manchester City in their first Premier League home game of the campaign and, as part of the stadium redevelopment, Selhurst will look a little different.More than eight years since they were first granted planning permission for the redevelopment, significant work finally began this summer. The project to replace the 102-year-old Main Stand and make other improvements to the stadium has dragged on and on since it was first unveiled in 2017 and planning permission was granted in principle in 2018.Costs have risen sharply in the intervening years, with various design tweaks made along the way. Enabling works began in 2024, with actual construction anticipated last summer only to be delayed. But now, supporters are seeing tangible progress. The start of construction is not far away.Here, The Athletic looks at where the process has reached.What is happening at Selhurst?At long last, six houses in Wooderson Close, the residential road in the shadow of Selhurst Park, have been demolished. Palace have knocked down the properties — five council-owned and one privately — and the site has now been cleared, creating a line of sight from Wooderson Close to the stadium for the first time since they were built.Residents have long since been relocated, receiving compensation and new homes of the equivalent size elsewhere within the borough of Croydon.The view along the side of the Main Stand (Matt Woosnam/The Athletic)In part of the club’s car park next to Sainsbury’s supermarket a temporary hospitality building has been erected, although when The Athletic visited on Wednesday it was not yet fully complete.The temporary building that will house those displaced from lounges in the Main Stand (Matt Woosnam/The Athletic)The building is for those who will be affected by the removal of Speroni’s restaurant and other lounges, housed in the Main Stand, in order to maintain the corporate income they provide.The temporary building (Matt Woosnam/The Athletic)The more modern extensions to the Main Stand, including the club’s main reception, have been demolished. The Stanley Stephenson lounge, Speroni’s, the Vice Presidents’ lounge and the boardroom have all gone too. The fan zone, previously sited opposite the centenary wall and opposite the Main Stand, has also been removed.An email from the club to affected supporters noted the Wright & Bright bar has been extended and a new concourse has been created called the Eagle’s Nest, which will have a bar to provide additional refreshment options.It the first visible work for the redevelopment, with more cosmetic changes having also been instigated — such as the removal of club offices to the building above the Whitehorse Lane end, which previously hosted the Crystals nightclub.So the Main Stand redevelopment is actually happening…It is. Palace have put extensive work into reaching this stage.They have, via outsourced companies, produced detailed information about how the build will look and what the timescale is, and have formulated a construction plan. They submitted a request to Croydon Council for the project to be undertaken in phases for the purpose of spreading the cost of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) payments rather than having to meet those costs all at once. They had been granted permission in March for some relatively minor design changes and made a request to vary the planning permission to conduct work in phases.