Comment 45102

By finiteman (anonymous) | Posted August 07, 2010 at 18:49:00

For the life of me I cannot understand why this argument has not been pushed at the city from day 1.

The CFL needs 25,000 seats minimum and for Hamilton 25-30K would be appropriate. Not getting a stadium plan that meets that criteria from day 1 not only lessons the city's bargaining power, it is beyond foolish politically.

The Unversity of North Texas is building a very nice stadium - the US's first LEED stadium - for about $80M. It will seat 30K and will have suites.

There is no way Hamilton could not afford to build a 30,000 seat CFL friendly stadium with luxury boxes for $102M.

Chair backed seats are not that expensive. Saputo stadium has 14K chairbacked seats and the total cost of the stadium was under $15M. (Don't get caught up on the total cost of Saputo - that was built on an existing soccer pitch. It would be more accurate to list the "construction costs" as expansion costs. The point is chair backed seating is not that expensive.)

Also what else is going to be done out there? Throwing a stadium in doesn't make a dead community blossom. What else is the city going to do to revitalize the area?

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