Comment 28914

By Hopeful (registered) | Posted February 20, 2009 at 23:35:28

I keep seeing the new stadium being referred to as a mixed-use facility but, I must admit, I have a hard time picturing this especially in the setting currently proposed. One only has to consider the problems the Docklands, Kingswood (once at a Canada's Wonderland) and other music venues have had in built up areas to believe that the stadium may be used for sports but little else (many of the great downtown examples being pointed to elsewhere are essentially daytime baseball parks that are used for little else and generate revenues from corporate and television rights via team leases) . This does not seem sustainable to me here. Does anyone know if noise impacts have been considered in the siting process and, if so, how they were calculated and weighed? Actually, does anyone know if a proper siting process has even occured? It's easy to get the impression that everything to date has been decided by political dreams, shenanigans and spite. Trust me, I genuinely want to see this City prosper --- and get the north end back on-line --- but I can't shake the rancid smell of terrible white elephant just over the horizon here.

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