Quebec vs Markham pour un amphithéâtre

[carey price 642]

Notre facon de pense et de faire versus celle des gens d'ailleurs

voici le texte sur la contruction d'un amphithéâtre on parle d'une ville qui fait partie du GTA!

 

TORONTO - Plans for a new state-of-the art NHL-ready arena and entertainment centre is skating along on fast ice at Markham.

 

A site application plan for the proposed Markham Sports, Entertainment & Cultural Centre is being prepared and will be filed with city officials this summer, said businessman Graeme Roustan, chairman and CEO of GTA Sports and Entertainment.

 

Roustan is being backed by developer Rudy Bratty of the Regminton Group.

 

“We would like to begin work by 2014,” Roustan said at a meeting on Wednesday with community members at the Markham Civic Centre. “It is a very exciting project and I am proud to be a part of it.”

 

Roustan helped bring the Sharks to San Jose, and tried to acquire both the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning in recent years.

 

About 100 residents gathered at the centre to obtain more information on the $325 million complex and maybe a possible NHL team. The venue has been approved by Markham council, which means the city will have to borrow $162.5 million to cover its share.

 

The proposed 20,000-seat centre is to be located in Markham Centre on about six acres of land west of the Unionville GO Station and north of Highway 407.

 

Markham Mayor Frank Scarpelli said the centre will be a boost to his city.

 

“I am excited about this project,” he said. “It will bring us many opportunities as a city.”

 

The centre is intended to be a world-class venue for concerts, cultural celebrations, sporting events, conventions and community uses.

 

A report prepared by Markham staff claims that building the arena will provide 886 permanent jobs, $61.1 million in annual GDP, and $13.2 million in taxes, assuming 130 annual events.

[carey price 642]

J' avais vu plus que clair encore une fois :D :idea: continuer a vous tirer dans le pied et a vous poignardez dans le dos pendant que le train passe Markham en 3 ans a deja son mega hopital et va allez de l'avant pour un amphitéatre construit pour 2015 alors que.....

TBK Quebec merite mieux que ca j'en reviens pas de l'auto destruction, des reglement compte vengeance et poignardage dans le dos toute cette TBK de jalousie et envie malsaine et power trip de trou de cul malsain quamd allez vous avoir une once de bon sens et vous tenir pour construire ensemble au lieu de vous mettre des batons dans les roues vous memes, c'est exactement la meme de TBK de chose au hockey mineur et ailleurs toujours la meme ......

anyway voici un article qui parle justement de Markam et qui cite Quebec :wink:

elle est ou la mega hopital ca fait plus d'une décemie que :oops: :roll: continuer a blackballer le projet de l'amphitheatre aves des action pire empecher PKF le seul qui a les rien assez solide a Quebec pour réaliser ce projet! incroyable on donne tout cuit dans le bec pis on mort la main qui pret a.......nivelage par les bas bien ca semble pas juste au hockey mineur reveillez vous et non je parle pas d'un certain journal a propagande réligieux :twisted:

 

Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey, occasionally according to Twitter. If you're only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death of your dear internet instead?

Yesterday it was revealed that an application of site plans for an NHL-quality arena in Markham, Ontario, will likely be submitted today and could lead to permits to begin building by the fall.

This news was reported on Twitter by The Hockey News editor in chief Jason Kay, and soon followed with more beefed-up details from TSN: In short, GTA Sports and Entertainment, the company submitting the plans, is going to spend $325 million to build a rink in the greater Toronto area (thus, GTA; Markham is about 19 miles from the Air Canada Centre) for reasons that are not, currently, entirely clear.

The TSN report says the hope is that the rink could be completed in time to host the World Junior Championships in 2015, but if you're either GTASE or the city of Markham - which is footing half the arena bill for some bizarre reason - you don't spend $162.5 million to host World Juniors once, and then a handful of other events.

Clearly, the hope is that this leads to an NHL team. And it very well should.

Not that there aren't more than a few suitable sites that already exist or might soon — among others, Kansas City's still-vacant 17,000-seat Sprint Center falls into the former group, and plans in Seattle and Quebec City fall into the latter. But of all the prospective ideas for either expansion or relocation, either of which one assumes the league is loath to undertake, one just a short drive from downtown Toronto has and always will make the most sense for all involved.

Oh, the Maple Leafs, which earn more revenues than any other team in the NHL by a good 20 percent, would like it about as much as they'd like to continue this run of futility, and certainly that gives them a certain amount of heft to throw around. The same could likely be said of the Buffalo Sabres, though to a far lesser extent.

But with so many teams very visibly struggling to draw crowds and generate revenues across the league — the Coyotes, Devils, and Islanders, for instance — relocation, though unappetizing, seems on the horizon in at least one case. The Islanders could very well move to Brooklyn, and who knows what happens with Phoenix or New Jersey, whose ownership situations seem unstable to put it mildly.

The question with regard to a team in Markham is: Would people show up? And the answer is yes. Particularly if a team like Phoenix, which is well-managed and well-coached, moved there instead of being an expansion franchise. This team would rake in money in ways that Winnipeg could only dream of, if only because of the population base.

Of course, this is all quite a ways off. :idea: If the plan is for the rink to be open by 2015, which is the same projected opening date for the potential Quebec arena, :idea: that means at least three more seasons of a team not moving there, and the situation across the league is, shall we say, more than a little liquid right now. We don't know what's going on with the Devils at all, except to say things are looking a little grim. Jeff Vanderbeek owes his lenders a lot of money and doesn't have nearly enough to meet obligations with less than a week remaining. Meanwhile, in the desert, we haven't heard a word out of Greg Jamison or the league about how they're trying to bridge their own $20 million gap between the funds to buy the team and the league's $170 million asking price.

All of this makes the league look awful. It's stuck around in a no-win situation in Phoenix forever, and New Jersey could be a real disaster in the making if the report about Vanderbeek not being able to meet his debt payment obligations is true.

Not that the league is doing badly or anything overall (see: everything written by non-ownership shills about the impending potential work stoppage) but if we're really that concerned about slumping revenues from teams with terrible ownership or arena situations, then boy oh boy, doesn't a Toronto-area rink just solve every conceivable problem immediately?

If only the people involved could make it so that rink would be ready next month, rather than next month plus three years. That would set everything right no problem at all.

[Montreal50 3]

Qu'y mange d'la marde les Nordiques, c'est clair me semble ?

[carey price 642]

Montreal 50 tu as droit a ton opignon tu as tes raison et je les respectes moi je crois que ca serait extraordinaire de ravoir les Nordiques

[jcac 8]

Moi j aimerais ca de voir le retour des Nordiques!!!! Rivalité HABS / Nordiques YOUPIE!!!!

[carey price 642]

Moi j aimerais ca de voir le retour des Nordiques!!!! Rivalité HABS / Nordiques YOUPIE!!!!

Je reve a la meme chose :D