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I will point out that this is city staff recommending the sale of the site. Although I agree that most of the councils are boomers that still think of kitchener as a small town. The real issue here is that the city's planning department is incapable of thinking large picture and are afraid to take on any risk at all, even it it is the right decision.
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Is it paranoia around risk or trying to maximize revenue (i.e. is the full parcel more valuable to developers than the sum of portions of it?)?
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I guess we could also convince a billionaire to ask the City for massive tax break to build a stadium for a sports team. That seems to be about the only "big picture" risk that cities are willing to make these days.
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Which comes first, a new stadium or a new arena?
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Kitchener has a long list of "would be nice to haves". New arena, new stadium (two actually - one for baseball), Olympic size swimming and diving facility, And a convention centre. Not sure that any of the should be in Bramm Yards, however.