Brent opened the show by looking ahead to the future and what Hobart might be like with Macquarie Point Stadium.
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What will Hobart be like with Macquarie Point Stadium? (08/07/24)
With Uber Reserve, you can book your Uber ride in advance. 90 days in advance. Perfect for all you forward thinkers and planning gurus. Reserve your Uber ride up to 90 days in advance. Uber Reserve. See Uber app for details. Right across Tasmania. On SCM Tassie. This is the Devil's Advocate with Brent Castella. Follow us online at SCM Tassie and text any time. 0 4 3 7. Double 5 2 5 3 5. As we start the show today, I want you to close your eyes and let your mind wander to the year 20 29. Following an extremely busy week at work, you've just clocked off at your office and you're about to take a 10-minute walk from the CBD to Tasmania's hottest new bar. After meeting up with friends for a few drinks, as a group you travel 50 metres away to one of Australia's best restaurants headlined by a world-famous chef with views as far as the eye can see. It was a difficult choice to make because it's one of many new establishments in the area. As you're at your meal, thousands of footy fans are streaming past because tonight, Tasmania's AFL Club welcomes Collingwood to town for the first time. When you're done, you become part of the 23,000 strong crowd. As you make your way inside one of the world's most innovative stadiums, you notice small pieces of confetti still lingering from Coldplay's concert a week earlier. With food and beverage outlets available almost every 30 metres, there's no queues inside. You grab yourselves a drink and head to your seats. For this game, you're sitting in the top tier, but let's be honest, there's no bad view in the state of the art venue. After watching the devils win a nail bite, some of you crew up to go home. The rest head back outside and enter the city's newest nightclub. After tearing up the dance floor until the early hours of the morning, you call it a night. The next day, even though there's no event on, hundreds of people are visiting the area for a variety of reasons, from having brunch with friends, letting the kids play in the new parklands or simply just taking a walk through the surrounds to appreciate what it's become. It's a thriving metropolis. As you slowly open your eyes, it might still feel like a long time away, but this is no dream. In a few short years, this will be a reality. That reality took another giant step forward yesterday when renders of what McCurry Point will look like in five years' time were released to the public. That will be our focus today on our latest edition of the devil's advocate. Yesterday, we finally received some clarity on exactly what Mac 1.0 will look like. Some of the words I've heard people use to describe it are "inoffensive, clean, natural and even earthy". I'd agree, in my opinion, it's not going to be the eyesore many against the proposal thought it might be. The state government says it's worked to design something welcoming, functional and uniquely Tasmanian for the space. Here's Mac Point Development Corporation CEO Anne Beech with us on SCN Tassie Breakfast this morning. And it's really exciting to finally get these out there. We've been working on this for a little while and to start sharing our work is super exciting. It has been a really positive response. We have worked really hard to get something that felt like it landed. It lives in this space and that's been a lot of the response that we've had. Some of the feedback has been not only does it work in this space, but it almost looks like you could pick it up and put it anywhere in Tasmania. And I think that was the moment we were like, yeah, we've got this. As I mentioned earlier, the stadium design will dominate today's edition of the devil's advocate soon. My special guest will be the man that's brought all this together from Cox architecture, Alistair Richardson. Later this hour, Sports Minister Nick Street will join me to give the state government's perspective on what's happened over the last 24 hours, but will also steer away from McPoint talk towards the end of the show. And as always, we'll work around the country to see how our Tasmanian players fared in their respective competitions over the weekend, thanks to our friends at Battery World. That's all ahead for you within the next 60 minutes here on the devil's advocate.