Builder: six-week stadium delay "worst case scenario"
Drew Edwards scratchingpost.thespec.com 03/25/2014
The Spec's Matt Van Dongen is at the Pan Am subcommittee meeting at city hall this morning where representatives from the ONSS (the builders) and Infrastructure Ontario gave an update on the status of the stadium.
Here are a few of Matt's tweets from @Mattatthespec:
- Stadium builder rep Greg Stack says
six week delay "worst case scenario," still aiming to be done in time for Tiger-Cats first home game
- Turning stadium over in stages to city, Ticats is one option to speed things up, allow team to prepare
- Technically possible to hold game before stadium is 100% finished, but fire dept, bld dept would have to sign off
- Not a lot of questions thrown at IO, stadium builders. they say a better completion update will come in mid-late April.
There's also
a story in today's Guelph Mercury which says the Ticats haven't contacted the University of Guelph about playing games at Alumni Stadium if Tim Hortons Field isn't completed on time.
So, as I suggested last week, the six-week delay is a worst case scenario and the builder and the Ticats are still hoping the stadium will be ready for the home opener on July 26. As for the double-secret Plan B, I believe the most likely scenario sees the Cats play a game or two at McMaster if the stadium isn't ready.
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