I'm holding out hope they bring us in with Tassie as a 20th team. Won't be in the next decade but with a regional population nearly as large as Gold Coast, the highest incomes in the country, an economy larger than Tasmania's and a Territory government always willing to provide direct cash and...
Nearly all of the Grocon proposal was for the commercial developments on public land.
The existing Manuka Oval plan takes us to 20000 people by the end of stage 3.
The Grocon proposal was pretty vague on actual capacity increase, as it mostly focused on replacing existing temporary seats and...
The ACT govt master plan to my knowledge has a larger capacity upgrade than Grocon/GWS were proposing.
I don't think the alternative was ever nothing and I'm not convinced that the rejection of an initial unsolicited proposal asking for huge concessions means Grocon/GWS just walks away.
I don't know that that's a cynical take rather than literally just accurate. It's prime centrally located Territory land they want to alienate from either direct government control or community-purpose leasehold and build on.
700m of the 800m proposal is the hotel/flats/club development outside...
It's a rubbish ground with no atmosphere if there's less than 50000 people there, the surface is awful, it's difficult to get there and there's nothing worthwhile around it for pre and post match fun.
However, beating Collingwood there in the 2012 PF was pretty excellent.
BUS
Manuka there's several bus routes from Civic that go through the area, which are infrequent due games being on weekends. Specifically the 980, 935 or 938.
Cash fares for the bus are $4.20 for a single ride, or $8 for a daily ticket. With the prepaid Myway smartcard it's $2.10 for a...
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