Bob Bratina, Ward 2 councilor for Hamilton has come out in opposition to the west harbour site (the old Rheem plant) for the Pan Am and Ticat stadium. This seems problematic (at least if you are in favour of the Rheem site) although Bratina is only a single vote on council. The other possible site the city has been considering is an airport site (Confederation Park was dumped much earlier) on the Mountain. This has shades of Orchard Park, the current location of the Buffalo Bills stadium, which considering the state of Buffalo's downtown seems to be an example of bad 70's stadium locating.
I'll do another post on this later in the week, however with the province (and to a lesser extent the feds) providing a large amount of the funding and calling the shots, it seems unlikely that the opposition of one single ward councilor will result in the Mountain site prevailing. Stranger things have happened though, so stay tuned.
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