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Originally Posted by Empire
Politically if he spent $200 million on a stadium in Halifax he could garner 100,000 votes with no further investment
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I'm skeptical about this. $200M is a LOT and I don't think 1 out of 4 people in Halifax would want to see that much spent on a stadium. Honestly the more I think about it, the more I think that we will have to let the Nova Centre play out for a while before the local population embraces the idea of a ~$100M stadium. Both projects are almost certainly money losers in a direct, literal sense (and this is all that a lot of people see), but they also have the potential to improve the economy in significant, tangible, but indirect ways. A stadium proposal right after the NC would likely get the response "great, now we have TWO massive government-funded projects that we don't really need that are both hemorrhaging money! Derp derp derp!"
I think the only realistic alternative would be if the Federal government agreed to donate/swap/sell at a reasonable price the Shannon Park lands, and then if these lands were developed with a major multi-use public/private (or strictly private) proposal that included a stadium and a major transit hub. If the gears are actually in motion then I could realistically see this happening in the next few years. More and more people seem to be realizing that mixed-use is the way to go.
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