My understanding (based entirely on the spec article) is that there are three different developments: the hotel, the concert hall, and the parking garage. Im just talking about the concert hall, and I just cant see it getting off the ground. Sure, the HoB reference is simply that - a reference for the type of venue. But, buddy wouldn’t have the deep pockets associated with HoB - Live Nation - Clear Channel, so he’d have to finance it on his own and given his recent conviction and this particular market, who’s lining up checkbook in hand? And I doubt he has $15 to $20 million of his own. I sense its all wishful thinking, but I don’t know anything about it. On the “would this thing be cool if it ever came to be†note … yeah, it could be for a while, but the Hamilton market cannot sustain a profitable 2000-seat concert venue. Toronto could barely support this sort of a concert venue, so the Hammer doesn’t have a hope. I agree with MarcO that this place would just turn into a nightly drunken dance party and if that’s the case, why bother. If the article can be taken seriously, the city seems to be looking for the magic bullet, and is insane if it thinks this is it.