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Our Mayor is open to the idea of helping, read taxpayers cash, expand the CFL and wants to discuss the building of a stadium. This story never gets old does it your Worship, we’re broke, and attendance at most CFL games are down, but hey, let’s build a white elephant. —I hate sports
This article appears in Sep 12-18, 2013.
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does any politician know anything about geography and population density? i don’t hate sports but it’s a foolish idea
This podunk burg will never learn…
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Oh, great, just what this city needs, a major money-sucking sports team that will go titties up in 2 years. Hal-I-Fucking-Where?
Instead of a stadium, I’d love to see the revitalization of Shannon Park for low income families. Who owns that valuable chunk of land and why has it been sitting there empty for well over a decade?
Direct quote from a local MLA’s fart-catcher:
“It wouldn’t be fair for the government to make families live there”
You know, like they did for over 50 years when it was military housing.
And people wonder why I despise the Left.
Gotta love Rick Howe and others saying it could be used everyday by schools and local sports teams? I think he’s been with PET. Where does he think these schools and sports teams are going to come up with the money to rent a stadium out? Heck, where is the money coming from? HRM has a debt of about $265 million and the province close to $15 Billion. We ain’t rich.
I lived in Wallace Heights (Now ocean breeze ‘estates’) just beside Shannon Park, for four or five years when I was in high school/jr high school. It was a pretty decent place to live, tons of walking trails in the woods, hidden places like ‘dead man’s cliff’ and ‘glass rock’ as we used to call ’em. Way better idea for sustainable housing than a stadium. The fuck we need a stadium for. If you build it they won’t come.
Bro Tim you are totally wrong about HRM being in a deficit position. HRM had a significant surplus in 12/13 and will again this year. I do agree with the sustainable housing idea, but I doubt it will happen in our lifetime.
One day the newspapers tell you we’ve got a small surplus the next day they tell you we’re a billion dollars in debt. One day they tell you we’ve been awarded a huge ship-building contract, the next they tell you that the dock yards are laying off workers. I say take the money that would be spent on building a stadium and use it to build the worlds largest trampoline.
Hoist I lived in Wallace Heights as well.I didn’t grow up there though…It was a nice place to live,although the nearest junior high was a hell hole.
It was the Ship Yards not the Dock Yards,who were awarded our cash then laid of workers.
Monorail!
Hoist for Mayor!
CT, there may have been a surplus in the budget but we still are $265M in debt. Now if we have enough yearly surpluses and put that surplus on the debt, then we might get out of debt, though I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Yay! Trampoline!
sax-a-ma-phone….
let’s put money where the tourism dollars are. who has money? old farts and gay guys.
let’s put Halifax on the map by building luxurious steam baths. roman style (greek?)
hire all those face-fucking drunk chicks from argyle to staff the old fart baths, and hire the too-cool for school skinny dudes to service the greek baths. (you may get staff to work without paying them)
next…. some old women have money left over after buying 50 shades of vomit, so build a replica of the titanic bridge and hire some cute young guys after they get burned out at the baths to hold said ladies in their arms overlooking pooh harbour. $100 a pop
next… people will spend ridiculous amounts of money to vacation with their dogs so build 1000 off leash parks along the waterfront. they will come. hire burnt out mail carriers as dog toys.
good dog for mayor
GDM looks like we better start campaigning.
Vote for Hoist and you get a trampoline visible from space and Trevor Zinck will be forced to clean everyone’s toilets in the HRM in alphabetical order.
toilets schmoilets! he can do pooh pickup in the 1000 new dog parks!
Maybe we can build the stadium right on top of the Nova Centre. That way in two years, when it fails, it can be a constant reminder of how it was a little out of reach.
The Captain was recently made aware of the fact that Shannon Park, possibly THE PRIME development land on the Dartmouth Waterfront, has been completely vacant for a decade…
WHAT THE FUCK?!
*ahem* Apologies for the outburst. The Captain gets a little worked up about these things, especially maintaining the level of passion that he does for urban planning and sustainability.
This is HRM’s opportunity. THE Opportunity. We could revitalize Shannon park, not only for affordable housing, but to set a standard for future developments in and around the city. There’s no sense (and no cents) in developing the Halifax Peninsula. We can take Shannon Park and provide a portion of the land to Native’s (as they already have an application submitted for a small portion), create a residential subdivision, a boardwalk, there’s room for an additional ferry dock, maybe another farmers market, additional room provided to the nearby school, and maybe a park. I propose developing the land in the name of sustainability. Imagine if a little corner of the Dartmouth Waterfront was self-sufficient? What a World Class draw that would be, eh? That’s the way the world is going, and Halifax is a small enough city that it can change direction relatively easily. We should get ahead of the crowd and begin developing HRM as a self-sustaining and energy efficient city.
A job this size, if properly organized and the potential fully realized, could keep every construction contractor in the city busy for a couple of years – at least!
A Stadium? Are you guys fucking serious?! I hope that was just an inside joke down at the planning office that accidentally got leaked to the public.
A world class aquarium is all Reg is interested in.
but no dolphins or whales held captive. no orcas or belugas like they had in Vancouver. I loved to look at them eye level thru the glass wall, they would come right up to you and you could put your hand on the glass to almost touch them. but they didn’t belong there, cooped up in a tank.
I like captains ideas. and make some of that waterfront a HUGE tourist draw with underwater tours (must remove poop from harbour first, and any old mines ). a living aquarium. watch the march of lobsters across the sea bed.
waterfront is a huge magnet for people. and we have so much of it.
Well had it been done properly, with little renovations, it could have been all public housing. They may have been old but they were kept in good shape, complete with a heating plant and two schools. There was also retail space where a store, a coffee shop or something else could have done business, but as usual the Federal Liberals fucked things up and now we have a bunch of decrepit buildings due to no heat and weather damage that have to be torn down. It is not a good place for a stadium, mainly because of the railroad tracks and two roads for entry/exit.
The Navy(not RN back then) did have a ferry boat that went from Shannon Park to the Dock Yard,for DND and DND civilian personnel.
I agree with Captain as well.
While building these new developments on/near out harbour they should build mini sewage treatment plants into the buildings to clean the sewage made by those who live and work in those building before it even goes into our harbour.These mini sewage treatment plants would cut our water bills(the cost of up keep would be on those who live in,own them)also, help to affiliate the stress that’s already on our sewage treatment plant in Woodside.
*Royal Canadian Navy*
Sorry
There is such a condominium in Victoria BC,so it’s not my crazy idea.