Bidders give Ivor Wynne a good going-over

The contruction companies bidding on building the new Pan Am stadium in Hamilton were taking a closer look at Ivor Wynne this afternoon.

We’re a long way away from the Pan Am games but the first step toward a new stadium for the city of Hamilton were taken down on Balsam Street this afternoon.
That’s where representatives from the city took a walk with delegates from three different construction consortiums: Bird Construction, United Sports, and Ontario Sports Solutions, are all bidding on the contract that will see the entire block bounded by Cannon, Balsam, Melrose and Beechwood completely flattened.

In its place, a completely new stadium that will have design input from everyone from city parks and rec to FIFA, to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

It will take about five months to create preliminary designs, from which each of the bids will be formalized.

City project manager Gerry Davis likened today’s process to “doing a house, so you do a drive by” first.
It may not seem like much, but after years of contentious and sometimes bitter wrangling, this is a positive first step, on the road toward completion of a new stadium for the city of Hamilton.

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