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Originally Posted by worldlyhaligonian
There's not much information on the costs/benefits of different courses of action.
I wonder if this group can financially support the maintenance through some sort of crowdfunding?
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One of the major points of the story is that
both facilities (Centennial Pool and a new one) are needed. It's been apparent for many years that the demand exists for two such buildings, particularly with the reduced availability of the Dalplex pool.
One of the great lost opportunities in the ongoing saga of municipal blunders (another obvious one being building the Macdonald bridge with only two lanes) was to make the Canada Games Centre pool 50m (standard competition length) long when it was built, instead of 25m; the incremental cost difference would have been negligible in the overall context of the project. Had that been done, it would have been much easier to eventually dispose of the aging Centennial while adding another new pool down the road - which is the decision point where we are now, more than a decade later.
Unfortunately, a municipal swimming pool is, economically speaking, probably not the most efficient use of such valuable real estate. But there's no chance Halifax would build
two new 50m pools, so we're left with this dilemma.
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