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Originally Posted by someone123
I am skeptical. What they built had almost no room for spectators and so likely only served a relatively small number of people for a specific purpose. The city has no good outdoor event space at all. The permanent Wanderers Grounds proposal will often be maxed with 10,000 spectators and the proposed budget is $15-20M. The 4-pad was built many years ago so the modern budget would probably be more like $50-60M.
The debate reminds me a lot of HSR where people jump to white elephant scenarios when the reality is that much of Canada has 19th century style service levels or no service at all, so modest improvements would be a huge upgrade. A stadium much nicer than anything NS has would at this point be a relatively minor municipal budget item.
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On a somewhat related note, the emergence of the CPL makes a larger stadium a safer bet since it eliminates the scenario of "well if the CFL team fails then we are stuck with an empty white elephant". Even in the event that the CFL failed, a 20,000 seat stadium in Halifax would probably be well used by the CPL and other events like university football, the odd stadium concert, other sports like international soccer friendlies, rugby, etc.