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Originally Posted by someone123

To be honest, if Halifax is going to lose out then arena rock and pork-barrel pro sports are pretty good areas to pick.

The stadium doesn't belong to the city, it belongs to St. Mary's University; eventually SMU will pay to fix it. Right now they, along with Dalhousie, where people barely care about sports at all (coincidentally, also the best university in the region), are busy building actual academic buildings.

I would like Halifax to have a little more direction but I'm not sure a stadium is the best thing to be championing right now, at least when the debate is still built around the idea of the government putting up millions and then begging the CFL to come. As for Moncton, they can try it, but it's a bit rich for a city of that size and even if it happens it will still be a stadium in Moncton.

Its not so much losing out as it is what facilities a city of our size should have. We could use a new Metro Centre, but at least we have a decent Arena. The point of the Huskies Stadium derelict problem is not that they cannot fix it up is that if we built something better for the whole region(al municipality) to be able to use it would certainly make a better case to build the stadium.