{"id":692838,"date":"2026-05-25T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692838\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:19:10","slug":"25000-seat-football-stadium-pitched-for-halifax-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692838\/","title":{"rendered":"25,000-seat football stadium pitched for Halifax area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports fans\u2019 hopes for a professional football franchise in Halifax are being reignited after a recent announcement.<\/p>\n<p>An American-based sports entertainment firm says it has crafted plans to construct a 25,000-seat stadium with an adjacent entertainment district on the outskirts of the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. football agent Mason Williams is behind the business known as Ridgehaven Holdings, which drafted a plan that also includes housing, retail space and hotels in the area as part of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>As well, Williams says the entire project will be paid for by private investors, insisting that there will be no government funding involved with the development.<\/p>\n<p>The project is still in the preliminary stages, as the partners have yet to acquire any land or submit permit applications.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, the CFL has hosted several Touchdown Atlantic games in the Maritimes, including one held at Raymond Field in Wolfville in 2022 and <a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2023\/07\/28\/argos-riders-meet-again-in-touchdown-atlantic-game-as-buzz-for-expansion-team-rises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a sold-out game between the Toronto Argonauts and Saskatchewan Roughriders at Huskies Stadium in Halifax in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Halifax as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=halifax.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778170930_778_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports fans\u2019 hopes for a professional football franchise in Halifax are being reignited after a recent announcement. An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-692838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}