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Originally Posted by J epworth kendal
I love the Barclay's centre design, and I'm a big fan of the wood strips. Wood strips on the rafters inside would undoubtedly look great as well, a la how they did it at WinSport and the awesome wooden rafters of Valliant arena in Davos, but it would more than likely not work for concert configurations and such, so as much as I love the wooden rafters, that's a pipe dream for me.
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An arena based on a wood and rock (i.e. a Rocky Mountain design) could work. Might not work on a grand scale, but using the same kind of material look as Elevation Place in Canmore (it's really the only thing I could find)
Not Western but still incorporates the region's landscape. Would definitely be a unique arena. Would have glass (#### yeah!) and you could incorporate wooden rafters somehow and not really mess up the ceiling configuration in any way. I like that look too, but figure that 'Stampitecture' is an inevitability so just try to think up the best possible scenarios for that.
As for the funding possibilities, a new arena would undoubtedly match the ACC and Bell Centre for suites. So you're looking at ~130 stuffed into the place of varying size and function. That would work out to $20M+ a year (using some very conservative numbers) from suite leases alone. Using some other numbers I've seen for FLames suites they'd easily go to $40M+. Throw in the 'maximized revenue generation' that a new arena brings and the Flames would definitely join the Canucks in the $1.7/$1.8M per game range and the team is going to do pretty well for itself.
I'm fine with the city offering property tax breaks and other non-direct subsidies to make the project easier, but I don't see why an ownership group that includes two billionaires would need taxpayer money to build an arena that will be able to milk the corporate base we have for all they're worth.