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Originally Posted by Azure
Doesn't the Bell Centre in Montreal have 21,000 seats? And from what I've heard, most of them, including the 'bad' seats have a very good view of the ice. Similar to what the MTS Centre has here in Winnipeg. The seat at the VERY top has a spectacular view. Obviously it is different considering there are only 15,000 seats in total, but I'd imagine you could create a pretty good vantage points.
Of course that has nothing to do with demand, and whether or not the Flames can fill those seats. I'd imagine they have run those numbers and know what they want.
As for the cost, if the total cost of the building is $500 million, isn't it a bit extreme to suggest that the cost of adding 2,000 extra seats would be $100 million? Unless you're talking about $100 million over 30 years. If so, I'd imagine that if you can create a return of $200 million....with ticket revenue and concession sales, wouldn't it be worth it?
I wouldn't be surprised if the Flames go with 18,000 seats and 3x the number of suites. But I also wouldn't be surprised if they go with 21,000 seats similar to the Bell Centre.
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Not at all. Like he said before, you're talking about expanding the roof span, increasing the height, increasing the capacity of all of the smaller pieces of infrastructure etc. It would make sense to me that adding 2000 seats would jump costs up around that much.