Halifax Stadium Discussion

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In today world of sports or entertainment in building a stadium you have to have all the imporatnt amenities needed in a stadium to bring in enough revenue to make a sports franchise viable and as well for the facility itself to be profitable in order to stay in business. Those are the facts in the really world and building a stadium today that can`t deliver a decent bottom line and present opportunities not a stadium that dosen`t have the capacity or features and cannot be expanded properly temporarily for major events or built to be expanded permanently into the future, will not cut it. So that`s is why I am very convinced and know that this needs to be the model and I have done my homework too and enough research to know and follow the CFL faithfully, not the overated over-hyped outdoor arena football, no fun league (NFL) and I have been in every CFL stadium and been to 12 Grey Cups. Halifax needs a CFL model stadium and they also need a major sports franchise tenant to justify building a modestly priced 100 million dollar stadium to cover the cost. So why wouldn`t they want this when they can have it. It`s a natural, build it and they will come. They have it sitting on a platter. They have the population and the market and will definitely attract a CFL owner with the right facility which has to be build to accommodate a Grey Cup Game which a CFL owner needs to have to be viable franchise. I have studied this enough to know and have learned from following the CFL for many years and what business model works in to stadium concepts and necessary features and demographics and marketing of the product. I`m very demonstrative in what I`m trying to spell out but I met Larry Smith several times and Dave Braley as well and learned from them and they know what is the perfect CFL model is and it`s actually more like 30,000 permanent seats with all the amenities, expandable to 45 or 50 thousand for a Grey Cup. Actually Fenwick the Montreal McGill newly renovated 25,000 permanent seat model without a roof and with skyboxes and open concourses could possibly be build for around 75 million.