Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Stadiums

[CanucksFan95]

Just found this, pretty interesting topic. Does this relate to the Nucks and Rogers Arena? Will we be moving to LA soon? haha

[Ghostsof1915]

This is why I'm choked we didn't build Waterfront Stadium. It was going to be built with private funds. It would have been 25,000 seats, expandable to 35,000. It would have natural grass. It could have been the home for the Whitecaps, our National Rugby team.

Hell it could have handled the BC Lions.

BC Place as nice as it is, is a huge money pit.

It has no relation to the Canucks. Because LA has two hockey teams already. Unless someone in Toronto want's to buy the team and move it there. The Grizzlies and Supersonics have already been moved from the Northwest. The Grizzlies had nothing to do with Rogers Arena. It was a mis-managed team who's new owner got a better deal in Memphis. The owner of the Supersonics wanted Seattle to build a new arena or he'd move. So he moved. Sadly now Seattle is eventually building a new arena to try and get a Basketball team back, but have a better chance of getting an NHL team.

St. Louis does seem to be hell bent on moving back to LA. As they've bought a plot of acreage in LA.

[Baer.]

I got a kick outta this.

[Offensive Threat]

Seattle is eventually building a new arena to try and get a Basketball team back, but have a better chance of getting an NHL team.

A combination NHL/NBA arena will be built just down the street from Safeco field and Centurylink field. The state paid for both of those expensive stadiums through bond issues (That 2% tax you pay on hotel rooms in king county is used to repay those bonds) but will the taxpayers vote to pay for the new stadium? Almost guaranteed they will regardless of any promises made by the teams owners in the meantime to not use public money.

This is why I'm choked we didn't build Waterfront Stadium. It was going to be built with private funds. It would have been 25,000 seats, expandable to 35,000. It would have natural grass. It could have been the home for the Whitecaps,

When the city of Vancouver hired architecture firm Hotson Bakker to review the plans for waterfront stadium and they concluded the stadium plans were unworkable that pretty much ended it. Also there never was any confirmation that the $70 million needed to actually build it ever existed as it never got to that stage. I would bet that if they had got the OK to build it they would have then tried to get the Gov to fund the majority of it.