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Originally Posted by esquire
^ That's a good point, the Wanderers Grounds could never host the Grey Cup. I think 20-22 thousand would effectively be the maximum amount that they could squeeze in there.
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I don't think this is a good way to look at it. This is a part of the public Commons and can be reconfigured. There's really nothing special about the Bengal Lancers' site configuration, Garrison Grounds, alignment of Bell Road, etc. If there were 15,000 seats there that sold out regularly (including for concerts or whatever) then there would eventually be enough political capital to modify that whole area. Just like how they cleared out another part to build a pool or the skating oval or whatever. It's been interesting to see how the Wanderers shifted the political conversation around this public land use.
The incremental expansion can be justified as a public project that is independent from the CFL. They can build something now and then in 5 or 10 years add to it. Just as they built the 6,500 seat mini stadium and are looking at expanding it today. If this isn't good enough for the CFL then so be it but my guess is that's, well, basically just a bad take, and the medium stadium would be strictly better than the small stadium whereas there would have been no progress on an imaginary Grey Cup stadium anywhere in Atlantic Canada.
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