Comment 57643

By Zephyr (registered) | Posted January 23, 2011 at 23:01:37

@Ryan - I think this is a spectacular political win for the residents of Hamilton and for democracy. I could tell from watching the last council meeting and from email responses from several councillors that there just was no appetite for making this IWS stadium deal work. I was not expecting these huge numbers to come in, but I was expecting a report from city staff so full of caveats and unknowns that councillors would not be able to proceed in good faith. I think these huge numbers reflect PanAm and city staff's desire not to have future huge cost overruns pinned on them. There was only time for a rough order of magnitude costing in this short of a time frame, and those are generally +/- 50%. Looks like they choose the +50% route -- rightfully so, and good on them!

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