The area by the Rogers Centre has been mostly developed with condos, so that's the area with the biggest challenges now. One of the big items of discussion is the potential removal of the Gardiner, which could open up more space for a potential future site. Council voted last year to bring the elevated structure down to a boulevard between Jarvis and the DVP, which is the east end of that map. The lands to the east are still relatively underdeveloped, although the TTC have recently opened a new facility for the new model LRVs a little to the east of that square.The Toronto 2008 Olympics bid was very impressive and finished 2nd to Beijing, by a fair margin but that was politics rather than quality of the bid. They were going to develop the Toronto Waterfront use the land around Toronto Island/Docks and build several sports stadiums there as well as the village and the rowing and canoeing was to use the existing ship canal/channel which meant you could have tens of thousands of spectators either side watch as there would be a few bridges and it was to be free and 15 minute walk from City Hall. They also would use Ontario Place. there were going to be 17 sporting of the 35 venues needed (2 of the 35 were the village and media centre) were right on the water, or just back from it like the Air Canada Centre. 6kms apart and 85% of the athletes would be competing at these 17 venues. The others were 5 soccer venues and 11 around greater Toronto or other cities for the sports that are usually a long way from the main action ie, equestrian, mountain biking, softball, shooting, and some indoor sports arenas that had the minor round preliminary games ie basketball, volleyball, boxing etc.
Having lived in Toronto I was most impressed by it all and how tight the venues were to downtown. In some of the reading I noted the head of the bid said this would be a once in a life time opportunity to build these sports centres so close to the downtown area, as some of the land maybe sold in the future. Canoogs do you know if these areas, as per image below, especially down by the docks have been sold off in the Toronto boom years of 2006-13??
I reckon Adelaide would struggle to produce such a compact Commonwealth Games let alone Olympic Games. Canoogs send me a PM when you get back and we can catch up at the GDV before or after a game.
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Watching that video and seeing the pitch rise to become the roof reminds me of the retractable lights for Adelaide Oval. Never been done before and the engineers couldn't make it work. The video doesn't show everything but it highlights enough potemtial problems.Multi-purpose Adelaide CBD stadium concept revealed
Adelaide Venue Management has pitched a new 22,000-capacity stadium on the CBD’s Riverbank that includes a football pitch that can elevate to create an indoor arena.
