2030 Commonwealth Games?

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Originally Posted by Djeffery

Toronto's track and field was at York with mostly temporary stands. Hamilton can probably do similar at Mac, at the track beside Ron Joyce stadium. It's unfortunate that that one side of that track is hard up against the Ron Joyce stands though, so you can't put in a temporary bowl design like Toronto had. But you can steal half the neighbouring rugby field and parking lot and fit a lot of seats in.

I'm not sure I see that working. Half the track is landlocked by Ron Joyce stadium(as you alluded to) plus Ivor Wynne Centre. You may be able to get temporary seating around 50% of the track but the issue becomes you need a permanent structure for the media, tv etc which doesn't exist plus meeting minimum seating capacity. Commonwealth Games Bid requirements state a 40,000 seat stadium is required for athletics which is significantly higher than the Pan Ams. https://pub-hamilton.escribemeetings...umentId=193904

Below is the area around Mac we're talking about.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ro...!4d-79.9169964

Also I don't believe that Mac track is up to standards, it's only 8 lanes and Commonwealth may require 9. It's already very cramped and difficult to expand.

Another complication is you need a nearby warm up track which Mac does not have. York used the already established toronto track and field centre on its property.

For the above reasons I think you would need something entirely new, and probably temporary because we don't need a 40,000 seat athletics stadium. Maybe Burlington would be interested in a 10,000 seat permanent athletic stadium with 30,000 temp seats?