Comment 46259

By jason (registered) | Posted August 25, 2010 at 16:30:02

Meister, I view the stadium as the catalyst to begin cleaning up the WH lands which will open the door for the condo builders to come in and start to build up the area. The Skydome was built on industrial land and surrounded by industrial land and CN tracks when it was built and now we see gobs of condo towers around it.

San Diego and Baltimore are other examples of cities that have leveraged stadium projects into surrounding high density condo projects.

Jon Dalton - I agree with you 100%, but I wonder if guys like you and I can be convinced that MIP works for the stadium if it involves a WH land swap which will see many of those new jobs built at the WH instead of all being located at MIP? I certainly like the sound of it.

Obviously I would be completely against any surface parking in MIP. Their long term master plan shows virtually no surface lots, but rather parking garages and facilities. Considering the B-Line LRT would pass by the site it would still be a good 'urban' site. Far superior to Conf. Park or EM. Imagine the leafy views of Hamilton, the downtown skyline and Hamilton Harbour from an MIP stadium? Talk about an image-buster. Folks would be 3 or 4 stops away from Hess Village and downtown after the game and a 15 minute walk to Locke Street.

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