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By TreyS (registered) | Posted September 09, 2010 at 19:24:30
Exactly. Canada Bread shopped around for a location and chose Glanbrook. The City did not say, NO you have to build at West Harbour on a shitfield site or else go somewhere else.
$100 mil is nothing. (only $45m is ours) The City of Hamilton's budget is $1 billion a year. Amortize $45m over the lifespan of the stadium. If IW has lasted 100 years that's, $45k a year. I think the city spends $100k on roads every year. So they ROI is worth it. If it means a new stadium with a national pro sports team or be relegated to obscurity which Hamilton seems to be stepping into year after year. Without the Ticats it would def put an end to Hamilton's national relevance. Might as well put us as a tiny dot, between Brantford and Burlington on the map.
BTW, how much tax dollars for the new Farmers' Market and Library are costing tax payers?? No one complains about that. ? interesting. But "don't spend my tax dollars on a stadium other than WH" seems to be the sentiment with WH supporters.
Thanks to Harper and McQuinty we have a new market and library and York Street scape. But let's ignore that fact. Let's ignore that Harper and McQuinty have offered their one third each portion of the costs to clean up Randle Reef... they are just waiting for Fred to come up with our one-third portion. Way to go Fred. Randle sits as a cess pool because we lobbied for help.. got it.. then failed to deliver our share.
Realfreeenterpriser whatever: Look if you paid for the business plans you wouldn't be responsible to reveal them to the public. Mac did not reveal Camco was their choice for MIP until it was a done deal. In fact, Mac also had "several downtown sites in consideration" but never ever revealed what they were. Why? Is our business? Does Mac have to tell the public what sites they were considering for MIP? Even though Mac is a public institution that pays zero taxes. Interesting, how Mac gets away with whatever it want to do, without scrutiny but the Ticats as a private company are expected to reveal their books, and their plans to the public.
Do you realize what kind of feeding frenzy would go on with the possible stadium location? By the time the land was bought it would've been flipped three times in a month. Speculation my friend. that's the only land development that happens in Hamilton.
Those other cities you mentioned that have successful downtown stadiums happened to have already successful downtowns in the first place. It is not the Ticats mandate to make Hamilton's downtown more viable. How about it is Hamilton's own responsibility to make downtown attractable? If was, then maybe the Cats would be more open to a stadium in the core. But as it is right now, the downtown is not a place to invest. Sorry, truth hurts. I wish it weren't true.
It still distills down to two factions. One: Those that want a stadium on the WH to make it look pretty. and Two: those that want a stadium location that makes the Cats viable. and ergo keeps Hamilton on the national map.
Comment edited by TreyS on 2010-09-09 18:28:14
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