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Originally Posted by jonny24
Since Sackville ends at that block anyway (Summer), could it just end one block early (South Park/Bell) and give that road space over to grandstand?
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Yep. There's really nothing set in stone about the street alignments around there and it's all public land. And note with your design that not every part needs to be built at once. They would just have to plan for expansion. It's possible that if they commissioned a good study they'd come up with more creative options more closely tailored to the site.
Another small point is that while there's a bunch of surface and street parking around there, there is also a lot of structured parking in the immediate area including a 500 space garage that was built just to the north of the museum that doesn't appear in the Google view. I think this is actually a fantastic site for a stadium while Shannon Park was problematic, and the right thing for the city is a compact stadium in the urban core (near amenities like restaurants and hotels) that is served by a variety of transport modalities.
For the Wanderers, I would imagine that having an empty upper bowl would be a much smaller concern than having a permanent stadium to play at. And anyway I think this should be conceived of as a municipal stadium if the municipality is paying. If a sports team wants their own stadium they can buy land and build somewhere else, but I don't think that will happen.