Marko
Active Member
If you had the ultimate choice, where (out of the follow locations only)would you place the Hamilton Pan Am Stadium:
Bayfront/West Harbour (favoured location)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...7222,-79.873052&spn=0.009578,0.02738&t=h&z=16
Confederation Park
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...45015,-79.74967&spn=0.009581,0.02738&t=h&z=16
Airport
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...1429,-79.929442&spn=0.019189,0.05476&t=h&z=15
Why is it a choice of only these 3 locations?
I think Confederation should be choice #1. The highway visibility, access and lakefront placement would have the most cache and class when shown on TV, etc...
Tiffany Street as #2, though this is a half-assed attempt at locating 'downtown'. If it was a truly downtown location then it would be choice #1.
The airport location should not be a consideration at all, IMO.
Honestly, they should dig it right into that hunk of land that is Harbourfront Park just north of the Tiffany site - I've thought this for at least a decade. The park and itself would be extended due to digging the stadium down and into the center, and this would be a real showpiece location... the equivalent of Toronto putting a stadium where the island airport is now, except with a land link. They can put some parking and other neighborhood development at Tiffany, and build a cool pedestrian bridge across the tan tracks to the stadium.