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Old Posted Sep 3, 2010, 5:40 PM
fenwick16 fenwick16 is offline
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Thanks for the clarification halifaxboyns. I get annoyed because I and others consider that location to be one of the most ideal sites. There is an abundance of parking surrounding the site and good transit connections. In the case of the Rogers Centre in Toronto, people just park in private and municipal lots in the vicinity of the stadium and then cross streets at the cross walk. The Rogers Centre is right in the middle of the downtown area next to the CN Tower (it is actually shown in the picture that I pasted above).

A stadium could be designed to fit that width of the DND lot and vacant lot as it is. The SuperStore has a small building attached on the side - if that could be obtained also then that would be a bonus (there also appears to be an electric transmission tower in the area). Buildings like the Rogers Centre and Air Canada Centre in Toronto, and Percival Molson Stadium in Montreal were designed to fit the available space. The same can be done in Halifax.