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Originally Posted by Vorkuta
Yeah, nobody wants to see what happened to the Hali stadium happen here.  |
Halifax's most recent stadium attempt was never close to becoming reality, since the municipal government wasn't able to come together in time for federal funding. Even to this day, the city still doesn't have land chosen, nor concepts finalised.
In the context of Moncton's events centre, federal funding in unlikely to happen because Moncton's downtown is accelerating its de-centralisation; the most recent examples are the MHS relocation and Trinity Power Centre expansions. It doesn't make business sense for the feds to throw money at the construction of a downtown events centre, only to have to subsidise it to remain open in subsequent years...
Though I'm hopeful these outcomes will change, I don't think an events centre in Moncton, nor a stadium in Halifax, are likely in the near future. Both provinces has unsatisfactory amounts of debt.