From all the stories I've read online today, it looks like the East Mountain site is looking more and more inevitable. I'm disappointed, for a lot of reasons. The main one is the fact that money from the Future Fund is being used on a green field site, that probably would have been developed anyways and had commercial property taxes paid on it. Why use the Future Fund if you're not going to clean up a derelict brown field and instead facilitate sprawl, which eventually ends up costing the city even more money? That's what a lot of media types from outside the city don't understand. If it was just federal and provincial money, I wouldn't care as much, but the city is putting up a lot of their own cash for this. If it was known in the beginning that a green field site would be chosen, the Future Fund cash would never have been committed in the first place. Now the city will be accused of being dysfunctional if they were to withdraw it.
I'm also not convinced that the location will be as successful at drawing regional fans as the Ticat management claims. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I'll be disappointed if the new stadium gets built and the Cats still have trouble drawing crowds. What then?
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