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Why we need a new stadium...
Adelaide needs a new sporting stadium. The stadium is needed for several reasons:
- AAMI Stadium/Football Park is too far from the city, and while the stadium has served its purpose until now, it is now time to put a stadium near the centre of town. Spending money on improving AAMI Stadium would be a waste considering general consensus that a stadium near the centre of town is needed.
- Adelaide MUST be a part of the 2018 World Cup if Australia is successful in bidding for the event. Irrespective of the success of the bid, Adelaide would have permanent infrastructure in place for any such event.
- Currently, local businesses do not benefit from AFL and other events at West Lakes due to issues of transport (getting in and out as soon as possible) and lack of a central location for pre/post event activities. Having a stadium near the centre of Adelaide would provide economic benefit for businesses in the vicinity and thus stimulate economic activity within the city and surrounding suburbs.
- Other teams and events could share the stadium (Adelaide United, major concerts).
The question I'm here to answer is 'where should we put it?'
Adelaide needs a new sporting stadium. The stadium is needed for several reasons:
6 comments:
love the idea of a new stadium
however the SANFL should not have total control over it.
Are there not more important things to spend money on in this state ?
Yes, there are more important things to spend money on like water, rail and power, but the reality is that the SANFL would be able to pay for most of a new stadium with only a minimal contribution from the state government. The argument about better things to spend money on was also used for the tram upgrade and extension, but I think we can all see now that the benefits it is bringing to the city will soon see it pay for itself. Think about the increased activity in the city and the economic benefits of that and the resultant flow-on of money back to the government in the form of tax that a new stadium would provide!
I say that while we're at it we could also sell off the Entertainment Centre and Powerhouse and combine them into a new facility to be co-located with a new footy stadium. You might even be able to use it for tennis matches as well!
Get a life!! Colonel Light didn't see the need for a money wasting stadium when he was here, so why should he now? Of greater concern are matters of social infrastructure such as health and transport.
You forgot to add the Keswick Barracks site and the possibility of a new railway station servicing both a stadium and the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds (at Wayville).
Personally a multi-purpose stadium is not the solution. It is going to be very difficult to make supporters of rectangular field sports happy when you plonk their pitch inside an Aussie Rules stadium. In Europe most clubs using grounds with athletic tracks have moved to rectangular-shaped stadiums so their supporters can be on top of the action.
Cheers
Ho Really
poster from www.sensational-adelaide.com
1. Would like to know the vested interest of those proposing Light stadium? In my mind, it all has the ring of the white elephant- Myer Remm, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre and the Hindmarsh Soccer Stadium; thieves, cheats, and liars. Scum of the earth people - nobread (or modern hospitals), just prepared to spend the people's money on circuses in a State with aging infrastructure, an energy system it has sold off to outside interests.
2. The Bowden map (featured on your website) is misleading - the existing clipsal site has no connection to Hawker St or War Memorial drive. Your circle encompasses an area 40% bigger than the actual site and is drawn far more north of its location.
3. Would like to see the flaky economic modeling that has been done to justify a 3rd major stadium; was the qualification of those running this ludicrous proposal cut off the side of a cornflakes packet or is there a firmer basis? Is there any direct economic connection between the originators of the proposal and those who would have a financial connection to proposal if it was built?
4. Probably would in the long run cause a contraction in the numbers of existing minor stadiums that are more evenly distributed around the city - as events are encouraged to move to the newer proposal (if built), thus taking revenue away from existing facilities. i.e rather than generating revenue it would just concentrate it in fewer hands.
5. Back to centralisation! La Defense works for Paris. Adelaide metro has a model of local government (separate City Council's) that means that the bulk of the metropolitan population has no representation in the decisions made about its civic heart. Hence cityofadelade-centric schemes like this attempt to claw resources back from the surrounding councils. What about a new stadium next to the velodrome at Gepps Cross instead, or an upgrade of the Norwood, North Adelaide, Centrals, or South's stadium at Noarlunga?
6. Of course this is not a revenue neutral proposal as far as the Government is concerned, if it was going to be it would have been built already. No more government handouts in land or cash or guarantees for the old boys, just because the current minister responsible (in which ever government happens to be in power) was the developers buddy at private school. Too many large proposals are given a favoured status, not for their merits in planning terms or benefit to state development, but because of lobbying and because of governments and oppositions with no other options or ideas.
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