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[many7695]

I'd recommend going back and reading this thread through the years to catch up on what you're alluding to, but I can't imagine any new stadium is forthcoming with the amount of money being put into SkyDome currently. They're guaranteeing another 20-25 years at SkyDome with the recent renovations. No other location would be better than the current one for all facility users.

after the renovation was done Mark Shapiro said that is a temporary solution, always let’s not ignore the Atlanta braves are generating “Around $67M–$97M+ per year in revenue recently” with the battery park, no way rogers is going to look at that and say rogers centre is good

 

[Ward8]

after the renovation was done Mark Shapiro said that is a temporary solution, always let’s not ignore the Atlanta braves are generating “Around $67M–$97M+ per year in revenue recently” with the battery park, no way rogers is going to look at that and say rogers centre is good

This required a 3-400 million dollar subsidy from the county. The appetite for this sort of thing is pretty low in Canada and increasingly so in American cities as well. Besides the subsidy, it's no slam duck for the Jays to leave the best connected location in the province (probably all of major league baseball) and try to start a new district in a city where the land acquisition is much more expensive and the real estate competition is much higher.

 

[Red October]

The Jays moving out of the best location in all of baseball to some distant suburb with no transit access like the Braves did just so they get some development $$$ would be one of the biggest mistakes in Canadian sports history.