Comment 38664

By jason (registered) | Posted March 11, 2010 at 12:58:32

I agree with nobrainer.

A) if Lafarge is such a beautiful stadium site, let the private investors build it with their own money. B) cities hold some obligation to clean up brownfields wherever possible. The money allocated for this stadium was done so knowing that it's on a brownfield. That's one of the ways it's a legacy project. Despite the massive upfront costs of remediation, the spinoffs of further development, restaurants, condos, attractions, shopping etc.....will help to more than offset the remediation cost. In my opinion we can't afford NOT to clean up a massive brownfield district smack in the middle of our downtown/waterfront corridor. C) my piece does not vilify the business community. In fact, I praised both the Chamber and linked an article by Terry Cooke in support of a proper urban location. I don't believe that this small group represents Hamilton's business community. D) if eyes seeing a name on a stadium is really that important, then please tell me why the 1 million purchases at Williams Coffee Pub http://www.hamiltonharbour.ca/documents/... along with the tens of thousands of rollerbladers/walkers/joggers who use the waterfront trail right next door to the stadium site don't count??
It would seem to me that all of these people coming to the west harbour would be just the sort of people a company wants to advertise to. Money to spend, health conscious etc..... Apparently these people don't count because they are actually outside walking, dining and doing something while at the waterfront, not just driving by to somewhere else.

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