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Originally Posted by LeadingEdgeBoomer
Very briefly considered.
Several years ago the City and uOttawa had developed a plan to build an outdoor stadium seating about 5000 at Mann avenue. (The NCC must have been in on it). There were a couple of tentative designs on the internet that I have not been able to find since. Action Sandy Hill vehemently opposed any kind of outdoor stadium.
Still , the City announced a date for the summer of 2010 where they would reveal the plans at a public meeting held at the Sandy Hill Community Center.
In June of 2010 the executive of ASH met with then uOttawa President Alan Rock in his office. I do not know what happened at that meeting, but it must have been pretty heavy , because the university dropped the issue altogether and the public meeting was cancelled.
They immediately considered a stadium at the Minto Field. They quickly decided there were too many drawbacks to proceed. About that time uOttawa acquired the Old Algonquin site in Ottawa East (and away from ASH's precinct). Attention turned to there and it was also revealed that the former AD had put away five million dollars in a slush fund to put towards a stadium and that he favoured Lees. I know it is true because I was acquainted with him and he confirmed it to me a couple of times that I talked to him. Now we have Gee-Gees Field and the Dome.
I thought that the university was considering a Student Wellness Center on the strip of land on Templeton that we are talking about. However, the Master Plan does not mention anything about that piece of land.
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That makes sense. I guess they would be setting them up for a flood of complaints if they build a big stadium at Minto. Not so sure about Mann, though. Not too many neighbours close by down there.
Are they still talking about adding stands on the highway side of the Lees field? It would be nice if they could get that up to 5-6000. Or is the plan just to use Lansdowne for any big games?
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