Comment 53108

By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted December 14, 2010 at 19:11:50

The velodrome was/is never intended to be on its own a profit generating center. For that matter neither is the stadium. They were/are both intended to leave a high level sport infrastructure legacy in the community. What the community does with them after that depends on the different stakeholders that will utilize the facilities. In the case of the velodrome, it could see Hamilton build on its reputation as a great cycling community and become THE place to train for Canadian cyclists. The stadium could have /would do the same thing for soccer if done right. However in the West Harbour Stadium site one of the stakeholders decided to hijack the proceedings at the eleventh hour with protestations that it could never be profitable there without providing ONE SINGLE verifiable reference to substantiate that claim. Now they have gotten as close to what they wanted as they were going to get and now that could still mean NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH.

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