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If Montreal’s public consultation office doesn’t sign off on a plan to build a Major League Baseball stadium in Pointe-St-Charles, it would send the message that the city isn’t serious about the sport.

That’s what Stephen Bronfman told reporters after pitching the stadium project to the Office de consultation publique de Montréal Thursday night.

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Bronfman, the Baseball Montreal group, and the developer Devimco are in talks to buy a 40-acre plot of land near the Bonaventure Highway and convert it into a $2.5-billion complex of condos, commercial properties and an outdoor stadium. Though it’s still “early days” in the planning, Bronfman said the outdoor stadium would take up roughly 10 acres of land and seat upwards of 34,000 people.

“Here’s a great opportunity not just to build a baseball stadium near downtown but also to help with a theme of redevelopment of a sector of the city to make people proud,” Bronfman said. “This could add so much to our downtown, to our city, to everything we stand for.”