Toronto Wins 2015 Pan Am Games
 

Congrats! :banana:
http://tsn.ca/story/?id=297438

We're gonna get a new stadium!! :D

great to hear, congrats!

This calls for banana's.

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congrats!! their bid video is really good! you see some amazing aerials of downtown.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video...rticle1353990/

Good for TO! It's not the Olympics, but still pretty damn cool.

Congrats to Toronto.:)

Congrats T-dot. :tup:

Is there a map/rendering showing the games facilities and where they will be located?

http://www.thespec.com/videogallery/668036

Video of the venues.

For Hamilton a new stadium, new velodrome, an aquatic centre and renovation to Copps Coliseum.

Go Ams! Can't stand those dirty stinkin' Pans..

Looks like Hamilton will benefit greatly from this. :yes:

Hamilton actually gets most of the funding from the Pan Am bid, Toronto is mostly renovation.

Why is the stadium only 15,000 seats according to the video? I thought it would be the new CFL stadium... :koko:

The government is only willing to fund for a 15,000 stadium, $50 million is needed from the private sector to double it.

Bob Young, Ti Cats owner, will put money towards the stadium and probably naming rights as well. With this stadium Bob Young will now go after a USL franchise for Hamilton.

Congrats to Toronto for the win but I have to say that is a horrible bid video. The quick edits and flashes had me wondering what the heck is going on the whole time I watched it.

Honestly, I couldn't care less. Perhaps I'd be more excited if it started as a Toronto bid and not just a GTA/Southern Ontario bid that morphed into a Toronto bid.

Someone needs a bit of happy cereal!

This is great for Toronto!
Congrats!

:)

I'm just being realistic. What does Toronto get besides an accelerated West Donlands? I also worry this will be held against this city when we try for something on our own.


I congratulate Hamilton and others as this was really their bid.

Congrats Toronto/Golden Horseshoe.

Say what you will about these "lesser" games (i.e. not Olympics), but if nothing else, they are a great way to justify getting some needed infrastructure.

Personally, I'm a proponent of more Canadian cities bidding for the Pan-Am Games and Commonwealth Games in the future. For instance, Edmonton's '78 Commonwealth Games gave them a couple great pieces of lasting infrastructure in the LRT and Commonwealth Stadium, and Hamilton will get a new stadium out of these Pan-Am Games. No reason other cities can't do similar.