Canberra Airport's owners are negotiating to buy land for a city stadium, potentially enhancing local sports and events.
It could be the breakthrough that supporters of a Canberra city stadium have been waiting years for.
Canberra Airport's owners are in talks with the Catholic church about the possible purchase of lakefront land for an all-event stadium they say would be "worthy of the nation's capital".
Crowds would glimpse Lake Burley Griffin as they watched the Raiders, Brumbies, Matildas or concerts in an open-ended stadium capable of hosting 25,000 fans for sporting fixtures and 35,000 for concerts and other major events.
The intervention by airport owners the Snow family, and the apparent willingness of church authorities to consider the sale of the archbishop's former residence, potentially unlocks the final piece in the puzzle of where to locate a city stadium.