Comment 51534

By Brandon (registered) | Posted November 15, 2010 at 15:32:29

Turbo,

Mr Janitor is essentially correct, but let me restate it again.

You said that "as in every investment decision if there are no benefits there is no investment". You've said that there's lots of investment at the Longwood location. The only investment I've seen is what the 'Cats are planning on building beside the stadium. By your own standard, the only group benefiting from this location is the 'Cats.

Those facilities, restaurants, hotels, parking, etc... already exist downtown, the problem with the WH location is that they don't funnel any money towards Bob.

Apparently there wasn't enough parking downtown. There's less at Longwood. Apparently access was an issue downtown. With several major streets and a GO station across the street, there's far easier access downtown than at Longwood which has two small streets leading to it, plus a small highway access to disperse over 2,000 vehicles. Can you say "bottleneck"?

You find the term "Bob's World" offensive? I find the concept of it offensive. He wants all parking revenue, he wants all naming rights revenues, he wants to build restaurants and hotels that will profit himself based on a huge taxpayer investment. What better description than "Bob's World"?

That taxpayer investment should go to bringing people downtown where many business owners will benefit from it.

An honest negotiator would not at the last minute threaten to take his ball and go home. If WH was such a bad location it should have been taken off the table years ago. The person who interviewed him when he made the quote "We'll play anywhere" stands by it. BY may regret having said it, but that doesn't change his original position.

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