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Originally Posted by Jstaleness
That statement means so much. It's impossible to argue the benefits it would have brought. FIFA's decision would be simple. Brand new world class stadium just built in Halifax. We gotta go there! Sadly that isn't case. We'll never know of course but something to think about. Any costs left to HRM for the 2014 games would probably be regained during the 2015 FIFA games.
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Well, and had the bid been handled correctly the costs could have been managed. The correct way to do that was to come up with a certain scope of bid, present that to the CWG decision makers, and then either get the games or not. If the CWG people say they need host cities to spend billions then you don't
want to host and you just walk away, no harm, no foul.
After the bid there was another big failure -- everybody let it drop because it was seen as politically undesirable to be associated with the bid. Instead, council should have used the planning and momentum from the bid to continue at least a scaled-down stadium development. That could have resulted in proper planning being completed ahead of time for something like FIFA.
None of this really has anything to do with Moncton or chasing a largely meaningless "entertainment capital" title. The desire for a stadium exists because Halifax needs a stadium (Uteck Bowl had to move away etc.) and can afford one. Incompetent local government is why the stadium has yet to materialize.