Article in The Herald today:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...075/story.html
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"We saw it as an opportunity to entertain and look after the above 18 crowd in an environment that didn't impact the family entertainment pieces," said Warren Connell, the Stampede's vice-president of park development.
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The Stampede will maintain control of the gaming side of the operation.
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The non-gaming areas in the 100,000-square-foot facility will be renovated to become home to a Zen 8 sushi restaurant, a lounge and a sports bar, all Penny Lane brands.
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Linda Spencer, a resident of the Arriva condominium tower located between the former Cowboys location and the casino said she's taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the new Cowboys Casino.
"We're encouraged by the Stampede's interest in recognizing the concerns that were there in the past," said Spencer.
"There were considerable problems (at the previous location). Our ongoing issues were related to the security and noise issues outside the building.
"It was a constant source of irritation for us."
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My wife and I have been residents of arriVa since we first took possession in January of 2008. The one thing we don't understand is why some of our fellow residents had such a problem with Cowboys being there considering that location was ALWAYS a bar even before ground broke on the arriVa project (Desperados, Coyotes, and then Cowboys).
In fact after enough people starting complaining about Cowboys there was actually a little get together with them, our alderman, and fellow residents to talk about what could be done. We really impressed our neighbours when we said we were there to support Cowboys, and had no problem with them operating out of that location
Don't think we made too many friends that night. Our building was fine, we have 24 hour security and cameras monitoring the perimeter of the building, plus there was always a strong police presence on the weekends.
This new location in the casino will be better enclosed, farther away from us, and also closer to the transit network and won't force drunken patrons to walk by our building to get home at night.
Plus perhaps the Dogfather will come back, I always enjoyed being able to take a quick elevator ride down and grab a hot-dog loaded up with everything from him.
You don't want some extra noise and stuff around where you live go move to suburbia, this is the Beltline, deal with it.