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Originally Posted by esquire
I'm not sure why an major event is needed to pay for a stadium in Halifax, though... Man and Sask got new stadiums built without having to spend even more money hosting an international sports event.
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A private group in Halifax (which includes a bunch of regional business owners with significant cash) has announced that they intend to build a stadium without public funding. I am not sure how plausible that is. If it does happen I have a feeling that it would result in a bare-bones stadium in a suburban location, which might be a mistake.
Halifax actually has a fairly large blob of underused public recreational land in the middle of the city, the Commons. There are also universities nearby that could use a new stadium. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be enough coordination or political will to make something like that work. Also the people who are protective of public spaces in the city would hate the very idea of having a stadium anywhere.
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