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Originally Posted by ericmacm
The Atlanta ECHL team plays in Duluth, near Alpharetta. There doesn’t seem to be anything arena-related in Alpharetta so I would suspect it would be a complete new build of some kind of “arena district” off the highway like what the Braves did a few years ago. I do find it bizarre that the main goal wouldn’t be having this new team play in State Farm Arena downtown, but I think they maybe don’t want this initiative to have anything to do with where the Thrashers or Flames used to play (maybe to avoid bad luck lol).
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I imagine it has more to do with building entertainment districts (think Edmonton, Ottawa, or more recently Belmont with the Islanders) as opposed to building standalone arenas and hoping the rest follows suit. There's good examples of arenas footing wider districts, and I imagine it makes it much easier to get local and state funding for more than just a building for a professional franchise if the proposal is for a wider neighbourhood or district.
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Originally Posted by esquire
A new shared stadium in Halifax seems like a much safer bet with the Wanderers around. But while the location is good, personally I find the current site to be way too cramped for a CFL team. I think you could comfortably expand it up to about 10,000 seats for the CanPL, but I think that's realistically about as far as you can go there.
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Important thing to keep in mind at this point is that this idea seems like wishful thinking from the Halifax mayor exclusively at this point. Nobody from the CPL or CFL is proposing such a venture.
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