Comment 53962

By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted December 29, 2010 at 12:03:58

@H+H

Cheers!

@Mr Janitor . Thanks. I have not intended to be so argumentative on this issue but in the words of Peter Griffin .... "this really grinds my gears!"

This is anecdotal. A colleague of mine from Toronto Fire who lives within a Paul Osbaldiston punt of where the proposed "Bob World brought to you by the Paletta Group" is to go, facebooked me and asked me if I thought this could happen?

I told him, well Sean... does Burlington have $60 million or so (low side) they have nothing better to do with? Can a community with around 60000 households take on the tax burden of subsidizing to the tune of $1.4 million a year a private business? Or conversely pay this business maybe $500k as a "management fee" to run this facility with absolutely no experience in doing so? Further I said, Can a city of 170000 with no more room to grow afford to take 125 acres of employment lands out of its inventory ? Are you willing to see your property taxes rise to subsidize this?

I asked him if he could say Glendale Arizona

Needless to say he was stunned and not impressed.

Someone please correct me if I have misread, but I also believe there is another fly in the ointment of the Aldershot salve.

I believe HOSTCO has stated that the facility must be public owned and leave a community legacy of access to high level sporting facilities. The noise coming from Paletta seems to infer that this will be built with already committed public funds and his land. Now forgive me if I am missing something. But does it seem likely that a large corporation is going to donate 125 acres of prime real estate, build a facility and then just turn it over to the City of Burlington?

Comment edited by Shempatolla on 2010-12-29 11:07:40

Cheers

Greg Galante

Hamilton

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