[eastcoastal]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Well, we need both housing as well as the services, infrastructure, and amenities to support the population. Housing is much easier to shoe-horn into smaller plots of land here and there while large venues require bigger expanses which tend to be less common, particularly in central areas. That said, a lot of large venues can be made as mixed use developments, with things like housing, retail, offices, or hotel integrated with them.

I'm not sure our local developers have the experience with mixed use developments to pull off stadium-slash-theatre-slash-performance-venue-slash-parking-slash-multi-unit-residential.