Comment 49093

By allantaylor97 (registered) | Posted October 09, 2010 at 09:46:25

1 Bob Young isn't asking for Longwood, its the city that insists the stadium is located downtown sites all of which have the additional costs of land acquisition and remediation 2. EM was a good deal cheaper if you factor out the road and sewr costs that are going to happen anyway and are already in the long term capital budget. It was really a matter of changing the priority list on these already approved capital investments rather than an additional cost 3. Confederation Park is STILL Bob Young's prefered choice and since Collins proposal involves commercial development that will pave the park at any rate its hypocritical to suggest a stadium is bad for the park. 4. Since Confederation Park was removed from consideration it has not been mention once by the Tigercats 5. Rheem has been removed from the list of places that the city can consider if they want the Tigercats to participate thus it should be removed altogether since HOSTCO will not fund a large stadium without them. 6. Longwood is a poor site from every financial perspective but its one heck of a city building project that will partner well with Innovation Park if there is the will and funding to pay for it 7. It is incongruent to suggest that the Rheem property was already purchased and that all land acquisition costs on other sites are extra costs. The fact is Rheem property acquisition and expropriation costs in that area would have been a cost to the stadium and they are not a cost towards the new stadium but rather a speculative venture that didn't work out as planned because the city didn't involve all parties in stadium discussions from the beginning

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