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Originally Posted by halifaxboyns
You could then make the stadium part of a massive parcel re-work for the forum and a stadium? On big multi-use site in the centre of the peninsula? The only problem would be Young Street - but since I"m thinking pie in the sky here anyway - you could always dig up the road and drop it under the whole thing?
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I assume that this is sarcasm?
This shouldn't be a "pie in the sky" discussion. The cities of Halifax, Dartmouth and province of Nova Scotia should have come up with a site and stadium 27 years ago when they had a serious proposal for a CFL team. It would have shown many people that the 2 levels of government down there were serious about being proactive and doing something worthwhile for the citizens. Instead the province pours money into metal castings plants that have no hope of succeeding. How many billions were wasted on the Sydney Steel Plant? (this is a good example from my youth). If they are planning to waste money anyway, why not do something that people will get some enjoyment from?
The HRM municipality has no intention of demolishing two ice pads (the Halifax Forum) especially when they just built a 4-pad in Bedford because of community requirements. And of course they have no intention of digging up Young Street. Why shouldn't people in Nova Scotia expect something that almost every other city in Canada built when they were far smaller in population than Halifax (i.e Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, and Hamilton all built 20 - 30,000 seat stadiums when they were smaller cities than the HRM). Moncton now has a 20,000 seat stadium.
You stated that you just went to Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton to see a concert, so why is a stadium in Halifax a joke for you, halifaxboyns? You are starting to sound like Halifax area politicians who pretend to support a stadium but do nothing to achieve it.
If the DND site you mentioned were a possibility, there are already 10 - 20 acres depending on how much could be obtained (without demolishing the Halifax Forum and digging up Young Street). If a small portion of the Superstore could be purchased then there would be more than sufficient width. Stadiums don't really require on-site parking for thousands of cars. This is only a requirement if they have CFL or NFL owners as tenants who don't care about what is good for the cities that they live in. Then these owners will require a site that is in the middle of nowhere so that they can get parking revenue from a usually empty acres-large parking lot. However, that isn't the case for many sports teams. It isn't the case for the Rogers Centre or BMO Field in Toronto.
Here is how the Rogers Centre would fit on the DND site. The Rogers Centre is wider than a Halifax stadium would need to be since it wouldn't have 50,000 seats and a built in hotel. A stadium like McMahon Stadium of Calgary fits much better.
This is the way that Calgary's McMahon Stadium would fit. A Stadium could be built with seats in the endzone so that it wouldn't require this much width.
This is how a 25,000 seat stadium, Percival Molson Stadium (Montreal) would fit (there would be lots of room)