Comment 55866

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted January 12, 2011 at 01:37:15

Anyways, as far as Farr's comments.

I fully agree the Ti-Cats bring a lot to the city both tangibly as a business, charitable donations (Marwan Hage should be given the key to the city) and the intangibles such as city image, history and civic pride. I do agree I want to see another Grey Cup in Hamilton although wonder just how they plan to pull it off with a 25,000 seat stadium (40 I think being the minimum the CFL has set for a Grey Cup, and Hamilton's last cup wasn't a resounding success). I certainly would like to see a professional soccer franchise, and a NASL team seems fairly likely (lets take the Reds down a peg before they become the next Leafs and infest Hamilton sports fans) but concerts are VERY unlikely to fly again there.

I'm glad he's taking an interest in the West Harbour, and I'm glad he's seems to be implying that any money we save with an Ivor Wynne project are going to the West Harbour. Still, I don't know if I share his optimism regarding Ivor Wynne being approved, nor do I feel this rebuild is fulfilled all the city building objectives. (that is unless the Ti-Cats/City unveil a GO Station at Gage St and a massive overhaul/removal of the eyesore industry surrounding said station and improvements to Stadium Mall). I think the West Harbour should trump Ivor Wynne, but if it's not in the budget (which I'm not so sure of) and we finally have an agreement for a large facility with the Cats, I'm willing to compromise.

Still waiting for the Randle Reef mess to get cleaned up, but hopefully not much longer!

http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/12/18/hamilton-randle-reef-announcement.html

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