Scotia Place | 36.85m | 11s | CSEC | HOK

Do you support the proposal for the new arena?

  • Yes

    Votes: 115 68.9%

  • No

    Votes: 42 25.1%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 10 6.0%
  • Total voters
    167
Roaring Flames said:
Olympic Stadium will continue to be a white elephant money pit far into the future. Too expensive to demolish, too big for CFL and MLS, and unsuitable for MLB without a very expensive renovation to practically every corner of the interior.
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Unfortunately, the " Big Owe" situation is a choice between terrible options. Either spend $870 million on a new roof for a building that needs major renovations on top of that in order to be of much use for anything, or spend up to $2 billion to demolish the thing (although a lot of people rightly question why that figure seems ridiculously high).
 
Albertasaurus said:
Unfortunately, the " Big Owe" situation is a choice between terrible options. Either spend $870 million on a new roof for a building that needs major renovations on top of that in order to be of much use for anything, or spend up to $2 billion to demolish the thing (although a lot of people rightly question why that figure seems ridiculously high).
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I think the $2B figure is to demo and then rebuild something....so you'd spending an additional $1.2B, when you already have a soccer and football stadium that are suitable for its needs....
 
A big issue with Montreal's Olympic Stadium demolition is the same issue with Madison Square Garden, they're built on top of train stations. With the roof redone in Montreal it is easier to justify a lower cost lipstick renovation. Maybe something similar to what they just did in Hamilton to the old Copps Coliseum, which if you haven't been following, has turned a very outdated arena into primarily concert venue.
 
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Roaring Flames said:
Olympic Stadium will continue to be a white elephant money pit far into the future. Too expensive to demolish, too big for CFL and MLS, and unsuitable for MLB without a very expensive renovation to practically every corner of the interior.
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Pretty sure they have committed to the football layout, it will now be unsuitable for baseball permanently. It's a cool looking stadium, but they would have been better to just demolish it.
 
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Parts of East Victoria Park, such as the bus barns, will need to be raised above floodplain. Unsure if plans are to rise the streets around Scotia Place, much like what happened in East Village.
 
The updated flood maps show East VP in the 1:500 year flood plain now, likely due to the Springbank Dry Dam. Based on that, they will probably change nothing in terms of the streets unless the plan is already on the books.
 
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