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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3979222, member: 1969"]
Apparently the plan is for Montreal and Tampa to both build new stadiums as part of this partnership.   How that makes any sense I don’t know — do not shoot the messenger.

Not sure where they would build the new stadium in Montreal.   They used to have a great piece of property downtown available when this idea came up in the late 1990s.   That was a time when Montreal was suffering a bit — I am sure that prime piece of property is no longer available nor I am sure if anything similar available downtown.

The location of the Big Owe was always a problem.   Not sure if area is particularly as seedy anymore… but it is not near downtown either.    The Olympic stadium is fine as a 2 year transition, and since that property is so huge they could build a stadium besides it.   But once again location.   I can’t see renovating the Big Owe .. it’s beyond renovating.   It was built structurally stupid and not for baseball.

If there was ever a worse time to ask for any funding to build a stadium in Quebec and really anywhere in Canada it was in the late 1990s when the Expos floated this idea … and that was when an American that had bought the team in Loria.

The appetite for some funding now would probably be a bit larger… but it would only be some funding … nothing like the amount of funding seen in some US cities.

Quebec would also be leery to build a stadium after the NHL issue.. they have a great new arena that is only used by a junior team.

If MLB is waiting for Montreal to build a stadium first then it will come, it will not happen.   MLB then has to trust Montreal would build a new stadium.
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