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Originally Posted by blueandgoldguy
You can never underestimate the persuasiveness of some people. See John Spanos the would-be owner of the New York Islanders and Boots Del Biaggio wanna-be owner of the Kansas City NHL team. We will see what happens, but I will be pleasantly surprised if this stadium plan goes ahead with a substantial contribution from Leblanc's group toward the actual permanent part of the stadium. In that interview he gave alongside someone else, it did not sound like the ownership group would only contribute towards the operating cost of the stadium and the lease fee for the temporary seats.
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Is this really a bad thing?
It amounts to the city building a modest stadium with a small-ish amount of seating that is available for much of the time for other uses for free, and getting bonus seating and a CFL team.
Not too long ago the city proposed building an only somewhat more modest stadium with no CFL team on the horizon (and maybe it wouldn't have been suitable).