Parramatta Stadium Rebuild and other stuff

[strider]

So all the "income/revenue" blah blah - for who? The goverment or for private businesses? (Hotels, restaurants, etc) .... if goverment, who is giving up all this cash & for what? .... if private businesses, the cool but that dont mean diddly squat for hospitals and schools

 

[strider]

IMO, all the future returns bullshit talk is utter rubbish ... i still recall the gazillions the pope visiting was going to bring the state .... what is the end result? A few short term jobs and some people raked in a bit for a few weeks .... anything meaningful in terms of infrastructure or any f**king thing we have to show for it? ... the "tourism" smoke n mirrors that you can never actually attribute to any one thing?

 

[Suitman]

So all the "income/revenue" blah blah - for who? The goverment or for private businesses? (Hotels, restaurants, etc) .... if goverment, who is giving up all this cash & for what? .... if private businesses, the cool but that dont mean diddly squat for hospitals and schools

Are you serious?
Any event that brings people in is a revenue raiser for everyone.
The local economy benefits with expenditure in hotels, restaurants, local business, - local councils even (through parking fees), public transport usage. Even spending in unrelated businesses just because people are there. All these businesses then pay more tax, therefore, the govt wins as well and has extra income to spend on....guess what........hospitals and schools.
Gronk said it before. The VIC govt spends a shit load on the Aussie Grand Prix. You reckon that they'd keep doing it if it wasn't a money spinner all round?

As for money for schools and hospitals, I'll talk about that another time.

 

[strider]

Exactly what are all these events we are going to attract with the 3 rebuilt stadiums? ... or is that all blah blah pie in the sky talk too?

 

[Suitman]

Exactly what are all these events we are going to attract with the 3 rebuilt stadiums? ... or is that all blah blah pie in the sky talk too?

Go to the NRL thread and the "Future NRL Stadiums" posts, and watch the video on the new Perth Stadium. That will answer your question as to why world class stadiums generate income.

 

[strider]

Go to the NRL thread and the "Future NRL Stadiums" posts, and watch the video on the new Perth Stadium. That will answer your question as to why world class stadiums generate income.

Perth currently has an old crappy stadium ... of course building a fucnky new one will gain something

We already have a fairly young stadium that already attracts world cup qualifiers, epl teams, grand finals, etc .... what are the things to be gained that arent already there?

 

[Gary Gutful]

Speaking a lot of sense Strider.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

He's not here anymore mate. After 9pm he becomes Night Strider, prowling the streets and stopping crimes with the help of his talking Camry.

 

[strider]

He's not here anymore mate. After 9pm he becomes Night Strider, prowling the streets and stopping crimes with the help of his talking Camry.

ok - lets go with that .... it sounds better than sleepytime strider who falls asleep on the lounge

 

[forward pass]

I hope I have done that right. Stadium and carpark flyover.

 

[strider]

cool .... for some reason i thought the carpark would take up more space

 

[Gronk]

So all the "income/revenue" blah blah - for who? The goverment or for private businesses? (Hotels, restaurants, etc) .... if goverment, who is giving up all this cash & for what? .... if private businesses, the cool but that dont mean diddly squat for hospitals and schools

Hospitals are getting a shit load on them. I posted about $2b being spent on hospitals right now and thats what i could find in 2 mins of googling.

As for schools. Most of that comes from the feds. Ever heard of Gonski ?

Geeze if we had your way Darling Harbour ( just refurbed) would not have been done before schools. The point is that the improvements at DH brings us international conferences that were going to Melbourne etc. That brings in big bucks to the state and that cash trickles down to supporting services which generates jobs.

Same thing with stadia.

 

[Suitman]

cool .... for some reason i thought the carpark would take up more space

I think the remaining space is where the hotel is going.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I hope I have done that right. Stadium and carpark flyover.

Great work FP.

 

[Suitman]

Great work FP.

I don't think he's building either the car park or the stadium mate, but I agree, it's good work.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I don't think he's building either the car park or the stadium mate, but I agree, it's good work.

Of course he's not building the car park.

He's too busy flying over the top of it holding a camera.

 

[strider]

Hospitals are getting a shit load on them. I posted about $2b being spent on hospitals right now and thats what i could find in 2 mins of googling.

As for schools. Most of that comes from the feds. Ever heard of Gonski ?

Geeze if we had your way Darling Harbour ( just refurbed) would not have been done before schools. The point is that the improvements at DH brings us international conferences that were going to Melbourne etc. That brings in big bucks to the state and that cash trickles down to supporting services which generates jobs.

Same thing with stadia.

I have always said, TWO stadiums ok ... Three nope

 

[Suitman]

I have always said, TWO stadiums ok ... Three nope

I've actually never disagreed with that.

 

[The EELiminator]

Perth currently has an old crappy stadium ... of course building a fucnky new one will gain something

We already have a fairly young stadium that already attracts world cup qualifiers, epl teams, grand finals, etc .... what are the things to be gained that arent already there?

if they wanted to have events why not a stadium with a closing roof?
that opens it up to concerts and other live events apart from sport

 

[Hollywood Jesus]

Geeze if we had your way Darling Harbour ( just refurbed) would not have been done before schools. The point is that the improvements at DH brings us international conferences that were going to Melbourne etc. That brings in big bucks to the state and that cash trickles down to supporting services which generates jobs.

Same thing with stadia.

Trickle down economics.