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By lawrence (registered) - website | Posted December 21, 2010 at 14:19:54
@IWS Fan. Unfortunately, NoBrainer is right. HostCo would have never funded IW. I tried. IWS BU Plan. Perhaps the Future Fund committee would agree to an amount going to IWS Renos? You could probably clean up IW for many years to come, with the current FF dollars allocated to a new stadium, but how do you sell that to the board/the people? That tax money wouldn't have to be spent for the $20M to replace the south stands and whatever else the Cats would require to renew their lease at the end of the 2011 season? Tax money would also not go to any other upgrades required like improving both the water pressure and hydro capacity into IW. Seat backs, clearing Brian Timmis to create more parking, etc. If tearing down IW and building a new one in it's place is only $93M, what I have just discussed above can't be too outrageous a cost. Only problem is, that we don't really save from what it was going to cost us to build new at WH (although it surely would have gone over budget whereever it was built which would have had to come from somewhere), but the rest of the cost was to be offset by upper levels of government and something from the Cats so it's not really a cost savings per say. I think there are many benefits to staying at 75 Balsam and you, IWSFan seem to share my sentiments, but I know there are many who don't. How would spending some or all of the currently allocated stadium money to IW benefit everyone? Could it? Could this even appease Bob Young? Can a thousand more parking spots (not sure how many BTS would hold?), and the other improvements I talked of make a difference with regards to making the team profitable?
Comment edited by lawrence on 2010-12-21 13:27:01
Ward 3 Trustee for HWDSB.
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