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- Canadian Motor Speedway was a proposed motorsports park that was planned to be built in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. The development would be located on an 821 acres (332 hectares) adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Way highway. It consists of a 1.2 kilometre (¾ mile) progressive bank oval and 3.2 kilometre (2 mile) road course. With 65,000 seats and 40 suites, Canadian Motor Speedway would be the largest speedway in Canada and the second-largest sporting venue, in terms of seating capacity, in the country (behind only Montreal's Olympic Stadium). Its location provides it with a large market area, being 6.4 kilometres (4 miles) from the Canada/USA border with Buffalo, N.Y. and 17 kilometres (11 miles) from Niagara Falls. It is a hybrid development with aspects that would make it unique from other racetracks. It will have the two race courses as well as, Research and Development, Light Industrial and Commercial areas on the site. A specific objective is to develop relevance for motorsports through the initiatives of the Research and Development area, which concentrates on advancing fuels, materials and power train technologies, while augmenting environmental sustainability through a bio diversity initiative. Further benefits from the development include providing a strong employment base, with a projected 730 operational jobs for the Speedway, R&D, Light Industrial and Commercial zones and 1,200 construction jobs over 21 months for the speedway and road course. Events would draw patrons from areas outside of the Niagara region to increase the number of tourists to the area. The result is a proposed new dollar economic impact of $400 million annually. Daily activities would include R&D testing, road course track days (for car and motorcycle clubs), driver experience sessions on the oval, corporate team-building seminars/track time, charity fundraiser events, motocross and kart practice sessions, and snowmobile sessions in season. The Speedway would feature 10 summer weekend Special Events, under a permit from the Town of Fort Erie. None of Canadian Motor Speedway's developers could be contacted from 2018 to 2020. The speedway had been given until 2020 to begin construction before the government revokes the zoning privileges necessary for the project to go forth; its developers emerged weeks before that deadline to request an extension, citing a change in financial backing. After the extension was granted, then allowed to expire, the purpose speedway grounds were put up for sale, ending the project. (en)
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- Canadian Motor Speedway was a proposed motorsports park that was planned to be built in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. The development would be located on an 821 acres (332 hectares) adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Way highway. It consists of a 1.2 kilometre (¾ mile) progressive bank oval and 3.2 kilometre (2 mile) road course. With 65,000 seats and 40 suites, Canadian Motor Speedway would be the largest speedway in Canada and the second-largest sporting venue, in terms of seating capacity, in the country (behind only Montreal's Olympic Stadium). Its location provides it with a large market area, being 6.4 kilometres (4 miles) from the Canada/USA border with Buffalo, N.Y. and 17 kilometres (11 miles) from Niagara Falls. (en)
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