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Originally Posted by someone123
It's interesting in that the CFL stadium has been proposed for decades but the incremental approach of the Wanderers may eventually catch up to those plans, but with a stadium in a much better location. For all the complaining about the new hospital garage, which I agree is ugly, it makes the stadium site even better.
It's not inconceivable to put a 20,000-30,000 person stadium on this site with some adjustment to fairly minor neighbours (museum parking, Public Gardens greenhouses, Bengal Lancers, maybe realign Bell Rd). Improved Wanderers Grounds makes the Garrison Grounds somewhat obsolete. IMO there are tons of possibilities to reconfigure the whole area of the Commons/Citadel to get a lot more out of it. Part of that might mean having (brace yourself) 3 ball diamonds instead of 8.
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The Garrison Grounds would actually have been a better location for the stadium infrastructure since it is a larger space (I think) and is a natural amphitheater. Not too late to change that.
It really seems more and more like it is time to vacate the museum of natural history to a new building on a different site and cede that lot to the insatiable needs of health care. As it currently sits it will soon be an island surrounded by very traffic/people-intensive health care facilities.
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