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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Cleveland - if you're building a new arena / stadium, any rational business or investor would almost certainly try and build something that can handle one-off big events that would fill the seats. I think it would be unlikely that Flames management, using them as an example, are ignoring the grandiose opportunities to host major world-class events when planning for large public spaces, particularly sports. I think the World Cup example, although highly unlikely, is just the catch event for things like this. However, aiming for major world-class sporting events is not out of question at all.
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This city has a metro area of 1.2M people. That is actually a fairly small city in the grad scheme of things. This city will never have a need, at least not in the useable life time of the project currently being planned, for the type of facility you speak of. This city needs nothing more than a stadium that is large enough to facilitate the CFL, that is all. Calgary has no need to be the venue for huge stadium shows, or events like the World Cup. The population of our city is simply not large enough and won't be for decades upon decades. Those type of events target much larger spots, even the greater Vancouver area is boarder line big enough to attract those type of events.
That's not to say an updated facility primed to house CFL and maybe MLS wouldn't be beneficial, but that's all we need for anything we could possibly end up hosting over the next 30 years, such as a Winter Olympics opening ceremony.