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Originally Posted by Locke
That I'd agree with.
Calgary did exactly that with the 1988 Olympics and its served our City well, the World Cup...not the same thing. Most World Cup infrastructure seems like its purpose-built and goes to waste.
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Except in this case the city could actually use a new outdoor soccer/football stadium - and this would be a potential route to get some federal funding towards the stadium. Plus if we were doing an exploratory Olympic bid then a new stadium that serves the Olympics and World Cup would be great plus helps long term stability of the Stampeders and a potential professional soccer team in Calgary.
It's not like we are building a new stadium in the middle of the jungle with no permanent tenant like they did for the for Brazil world cup.
It would be more in line with Munich building the Allianz Arena instead of renovating their existing Olympic Stadium in advance of the 2006 World Cup.
An enclosed roof stadium with football turf - that would allow for natural grass to be brought in for Soccer - would be amazing in Calgary.
Look at how Tottenham's new stadium is managing their real grass/football turf hybrid.
http://www.espnfc.com/tottenham-hots...for-new-ground