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Originally Posted by flameswin
Yeah, unfortunately this city just doesn't have any way to justify having two 18-20k seat arenas, especially when one of them is outdated and costs a lot of money to operate.
If anything, what this city needs badly (after a new arena for the Flames) is a multi-pupose, smaller arena. I've been wanting this for years, and it would serve a great purpose.
Make it acoustically pleasing for concerts and modern, but not overly costly/fancy, and use it for all of our sports/concerts that are brutal to watch in a caverness 20k seat arena.
I'm so tired of concerts in the Dome with 5-6k fans filling up less than half the arena, making for a brutal atmosphere, or playing in the Corral that has to have some of the worst concert acoustics in North America.
There's so many bands that come through town that are too big for Mac Hall/Jubilee, but way too small for the Dome.
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The new arena will likely have many different configurations available for smaller concerts and stage shows. Most of the new arenas that have been built since the mid-90s have that capability.
Here's the Bell Centre's different configurations:
http://www.centrebell.ca/en/page/venue_specifications
It can handle everything from 2,000 seat intimate shows to 20,000 seat concerts.
I read an article a few years ago about the profitability of the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, and it said the key to its success was the ability to host those 3-5000 seat shows. They don't bring in the same size crowds, but there's a lot more tours in that range than there are of the big arena tours.
As for the design, I've thought an homage of sorts to the old #1 Fire Hall would be an interesting look:
http://maps.google.ca/?ll=51.047477,...308.09,,0,2.99
I like the arched doorways and the big sandstone keystones. They could also have a big bell tower out front.