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Originally Posted by JHikka
The Halifax bid sounds more like an expansion hopeful than an initial team in the league, depending on how temporary they view their stadium and how quickly they could get that settled and built. Knowing Halifax Council, and the vast number of NIMBYs in that city, i'd be shocked if it was approved prior to the presumed start date of 2018 for the CPL.
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There was a soccer-oriented stadium proposal presented to Halifax regional council a few years ago. There are still some renderings kicking around:
http://www.ceiarchitecture.com/tag/stadium/
Architects have gotten a lot of business over the years making renderings for various Halifax stadium proposals.
The city ended up not moving forward with the bid for the FIFA Women's World Cup because the provincial and federal governments wouldn't provide any funding. The stadium would have cost in the $60-70M range and would have had 10,000-14,000 permanent seats. It would have had the ability to expand to a temporary or permanent capacity of 20,000-30,000 depending on the configuration.
Still, a project like this would be very easy for the city take on if the political will were there. There is also a private group working on funding a stadium. I think a $250-300M stadium would be a tall order for the city and is probably a poor use of funds but $60M is a smaller project that is easier to fund, even if there aren't a lot of other partners. It's too bad that nobody seems to be involving the universities in this, or that they don't seem interested.