Quote Originally Posted by jimjim View Post
fuck 200 million it will cost 400 million by the time its finished and im not a supporter of the stadium as its a rugby only venue as far as im concerned there is nothing wrong with carisbrook which the DCC has just bought for 7 million......the money our government spent buying the wharf area to turn it into "party central" in auckland would fund sportsmen for years.
Yeah, I am sure I saw somewhere that the $200 million was the cost to the ratepayer assuming it got crowds of 30,000 to 25% of events. Ha bloody ha, there arent that many people in Dunedin, who's gonna fill it !

They are also making big capital of the fact that it will create 600 jobs, for 2-3 years. Of course its economics 101 that taking $200 million out of the economy will cost hundreds of jobs elsewhere.