Waye Mason, I only agree with half of what you are saying. I have always been in favour of an economical stadium that is purposely designed to be a low cost stadium to build, cheap to maintain, but relatively enjoyable. If you look at the website which I started almost a year ago (
http://www.halifaxstadium.ca/) I have always talked about an economical stadium. I strongly disagree with the argument that since Hamilton and Winnipeg are both spending over $100 million dollars on stadiums, that is what Halifax must spend. Believing that a stadium must cost over $100 million to be successful
isn't being practically mined, it is just an example of not taking the time to consider the many stadiums that have been built at a modest price.
As a side note; since the municipality now has a website, I will soon remove my website content and just redirect people to the municipal website.
PS - added: This is an economical stadium (below) although it doesn't look like it. It is the Kadir-Has Stadium in Kayseri, Turkey and was built for only $68 million Turkish Lira which would be around $50 million in US dollars ( conversion -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira ) . I think in order to build it at such a low price, the seats need to be cheap (molded plastic, non-folding), the concourses are probably unheated and open, there are seats all around which decreases the overall stadium height ... I think that to build a stadium that looks like this, a significant proportion of the stadium budget has to be used for the exterior and roof, and the stands and concourse design needs to be very basic. If you look at this stadium you can see the concrete floors and columns of the structure - the exterior shell and roof masks the simple interior stadium design. PS: I like this design. I think that the concourses can provide shelter from the sun and rain but I don't think that they need to be totally enclosed and heated.
(source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadir_Has_Stadium )
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