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Originally Posted by fenwick16
When people keep inflating the stadium cost then I wonder if they having connections with a builder? I understand Waye Mason's reason for misinformation - he just doesn't want to see the stadium built. But why do you keep inflating the numbers wespidel? You say that you have the highest respect for the Mayor, so why don't you accept his cost numbers and just accept his decision on the stadium?
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Oh Fenwick, just when we were getting along so well!
It is not miss-information to say all current under construction CFL stadiums, proposed or building, are $150-225 million. It is fact. It is supposition (well researched and vigourously defended by several posters on this board) that you can "do it for less" but as I have said before, I doubt all the other cities are dumber than Halifax and are spending money they don't have to. That does not compute.
Also, I said a vocal minority wants a CFL stadium at any cost. I never said the majority of folks want a CFL stadium. I said that probably a majority of folks want a stadium, but when the costs of a stadium range from Moncton at $17 million, up to $225 million for a full on CFL ready stadium, what does that mean?
I also said that when your Rec budget is $17 million a year that an extra $500K plus is going to give people pause.
I did endorse doing phase 2, on air. So take that, you naysayers!
ANYWAY: look - you want CFL? Get off the pot. Declare a meeting time, invite the public and set up a CEDIF co-operatively owned company. Do a Balsillie in Hamilton mixed with the Sask Roughriders share drive, and get 10,000 people to put in $500 for shares and $150 for seasons tickets, put it in trust.
To quote Spinal Tap - money talks, bullshit walks. If you had $6.5 million in trust to get the Schooners going, then people would pay attention!
Prove the market first! I would be happy to be proven wrong, but until there is some movement that shows really large support for this team, I just don't believe it, and I cannot imagine why we would build a CFL ready stadium when there is no actual anchor tenant on the horizon.