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By RenaissanceWatcher (registered) | Posted January 08, 2011 at 11:10:09

As Toronto 2015 CEO Ian Troop said yesterday, “In the case of Hamilton, the stadium debate has to be balanced. This is not about providing a stadium for the Tiger-Cats. If that’s part of the solution, that’s terrific, but that’s not our mandate.”

The insistence of Bob Young and Scott Mitchell on removing the track from the 15,000 seat Hamilton Pan Am main athletics stadium after the Pan Am Games played a large role in the decision by Athletics Canada and Toronto 2015 (then known as Hostco) to move the Pan Am main athletics stadium to York University in Toronto on July 28, 2010. Since then, Hamilton has become Plan A for a Pan Am soccer stadium.

Toronto 2015 needs a Pan Am soccer stadium with a maximum seating capacity of 6,500. Without its leftover commitment in its original agreement with Hamilton to help fund a stadium of up to 15,000 seats, there is no mandate for Toronto 2015 to fund anything more than 56 per cent of the cost of a 6,500 seat Pan Am soccer stadium at any of the Plan B sites (Mississauga, Brampton or Markham) or in Burlington.

It will be interesting to see whether the preliminary Pan Am stadium report City of Burlington staff will submit to Burlington city council on January 18, 2011 will take this stadium funding reality into account.

It is starting to look as though Bob Young and Scott Mitchell may have actually killed their chances of moving the Tiger-Cats to a Pan Am stadium in Burlington or anywhere else when they killed the Hamilton Pan Am main athletics stadium in July, 2010.

Comment edited by RenaissanceWatcher on 2011-01-08 11:24:39

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