Halifax Stadium Location

[JHikka]

Exact same talking points and discussions but fifteen years on.

[TheNovaScotian]

Originally Posted by JHikka

Exact same talking points and discussions but fifteen years on.

Same outcomes too. Maybe taxpayers should pay for a third study where to put this thing and then we can just ignore that one too.

[Zigio]

Originally Posted by Djeffery

That's fine for a game. I was more replying to the suggestion a couple posts up asking whether SMU would look at a CFL stadium, which obviously isn't going to work on the Huskies Stadium site.

Ahh.

Yes. I agree. SMU is definitely a hard pass for a permanent CFL stadium consideration.

[Haliguy]

I was thinking the other day if the timeline was better the VG Hospital site would be a great place for a stadium when the hospital is demolished, but is years out.

[ILoveHalifax]

Originally Posted by Haliguy

I was thinking the other day if the timeline was better the VG Hospital site would be a great place for a stadium when the hospital is demolished but is years out.

So build the stadium on the North Common and when the VG is demolished it returns to COMMON land - so the Commons remains the same amount of open land but is scattered a little more along the peninsula.

And construction can start tomorrow

[IanWatson]

Where on the North Common would you build it?? That space isn't empty...

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by ILoveHalifax

So build the stadium on the North Common and when the VG is demolished it returns to COMMON land - so the Commons remains the same amount of open land but is scattered a little more along the peninsula.

And construction can start tomorrow

If the QEII parkade debacle was enough to rouse The Usual Suspects away from watching Bernie Sanders clips on Youtube to stage a picnic next to the museum on Satruday, I would think this would be enough for another Occupy protest on the North Common by them and their fellow green-lovers.

[SouthPawLaw]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

If the QEII parkade debacle was enough to rouse The Usual Suspects away from watching Bernie Sanders clips on Youtube to stage a picnic next to the museum on Satruday, I would think this would be enough for another Occupy protest on the North Common by them and their fellow green-lovers.

This is a good point. I drove by the VG this weekend and thought about what is going to happen with it. It could lend itself to be a mix of things, a proper plaza, with green lining, while cleaning up some of the roads approaching, and fix the grid.

It is the Southern anchor to a commons, so should be publicly focused in what ever use comes of it. That shouldn't mean it some rationalization couldn't happen with the area to move traffic to better routing.

The problem of coming to a decision is as mentioned by Keith, is the local vocal minority. Who have for some reason the access to the loudest loudspeakers. There has to be a Sun Tzu, or Machiavellian strategy to coop, and then usurp that ability to have so much sway. It is going to be needed when the Wanderers look to expand. If Wanderers grounds is hotly contested, maybe the VG site could be the new home. Lift the turf so you can still call it Wanderers Grounds, and now as some have added to the idea before, it's closer to the Universities which would add to it's profitability. The location in relation to the pubs and restaurants would compound too. And yet the LVM would scream till they were blue or the land turned back to wild. So how do we fix them?

[TheNovaScotian]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

If the QEII parkade debacle was enough to rouse The Usual Suspects away from watching Bernie Sanders clips on Youtube to stage a picnic next to the museum on Satruday, I would think this would be enough for another Occupy protest on the North Common by them and their fellow green-lovers.

Thankfully its not going to ruffle a bunch of right wingers, our war memorials and statues are safe from being urinated on and dressed up.