This is all just speculation. Anytime you talk about spending $200 mil for a "renovation" the natural question is; how much for a new one?
If $200 mil just putting a new dress on an old h*, how much for the new one???
Downtown is little more than a business center. Shopping left 30 years ago. That's the way most cities have gone. Not many people go there, so what's the big attraction as a location for a Stadium? NFTA has the "good" waterfront tied up forever, and the "bad" is mostly Superfund sites that would cost big money to develop.
Speaking of Superfund sites, we have the biggest at Niagara Falls. Really not easily developed.
So afer all the politicians speak, we're likely back to renovating Rich and trying to find the funding to get it done, or not.