{"id":5916,"date":"2014-04-10T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2014-04-10T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:10:17","slug":"stadium-plans-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=5916","title":{"rendered":"Stadium plans move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Jillian Follert writes for durhamregion.com<br \/>\nEfforts to bring a world-class cricket stadium to Pickering are gaining momentum. Roy Singh, CEO and founder of the Canadian Premier League T20, says he is working with Transport Canada to buy or lease federally owned property on the northeast corner of Brock Street and Hwy. 407.<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of work is happening; we are moving forward,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nThe negotiations started after Pickering identified the land as a possible location.<br \/>\n\u201cThe City has suggested a parcel of land in central Pickering for this particular project,\u201d Fiaz Jadoon, an economic development co-ordinator with the City of Pickering, said in an e-mail. \u201cA main function of investment attraction is not only promoting our city, but facilitating the connections between the investor and the developer, and\/or property ownership group.\u201d<br \/>\nMr. Jadoon said once more details are available, City planning staff will do a review of the current zoning and make recommendations. WSP Group, a Toronto-based professional services firm, is working on a feasibility study, market research and concept design for the proposed stadium.<br \/>\n\u201cThe focus is state-of-the-art,\u201d Mr. Singh says. \u201cWe want this to be an iconic stadium that is recognizable throughout the world.\u201d<br \/>\nHe is proposing to build a 35,000-seat dome stadium that would host a 48-game CPL T20 cricket tournament every summer and other uses the rest of the year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.durhamregion.com\/news-story\/4454395-plans-for-pickering-cricket-stadium-move-forward\/\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jillian Follert writes for durhamregion.com Efforts to bring a world-class cricket stadium to Pickering are gaining momentum. Roy Singh, CEO and founder of the Canadian Premier League T20, says he is working with Transport Canada to buy or lease federally owned property on the northeast corner of Brock Street and Hwy. 407. \u201cA lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}