Stadiums & Arenas of Canada, Part 3

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We will see what they do but I think there is a big disconnect between the way a lot of people around the region talk about this stuff, which often seems to be based around emotions or very old views, and what the economics are like today.

Looking just at NS, there tends to be disproportionate attention given to small towns and rural areas relative to how much they could contribute to ticket sales at a venue. There's a fallacy, sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit, that the "real" NS is rural and so putting things in the city shuts out other areas. Halifax has about half of the province's population, more than half of the economy, almost all of the growth, and is the single easiest place for the majority of people in the province to get to. 3 major highways radiate out of the city and around 70% of the province lives either in the city or within about an hour or so along those highways.

It's a bit different when you talk about the Maritimes as a whole but still not really that different. NS has a majority of the region's population, no other market in the region is comparable, and the city is the region's hub for tourism and air travel. That's not meant to put any other place down... it just is what it is.