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New stadium is wrong size and in wrong place

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / April 21 2001: New stadium is wrong size and in wrong place

First, Location, location, location, Homebush Bay in Sydney which Irish officials have hailed as the model for Abbotstown is some distance from the city centre. Not nearly as tough to get to as Abbotstown and not suffocating inside a necklace of traffic, but just not convenient. Homebush was supposed to be the new heart of Sydney. Stadium Australia, which just six months ago staged the greatest Olympic celebration ever, was described at the time of opening as two things: the new heart of Sydney and a new icon for Sydney. Stadium Australia is the centrepiece of the Homebush Bay campus. It now stands on the brink of bankruptcy with a debt of 196 million Australian dollars. It is indeed a perfect model: we should look and learn.

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