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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
There is no economic benefit to the city/tax payers to fund the stadium in any way. Pretty much any reason that is given has been debunked. We'll see how far the Flames ownership pushes it (will they go to Katz levels of saying they might move the team?). I'm sure they'll get some kind of funding, but they should just pay for it.
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City absolutely gets benefit from this type of project and structure, and no it hasn't been de-bunked. People on either side of the argument can come up with lots of arguments to support their case, many on both sides have merit, but there has never been anything close to a complete de-bunking as you put it.
What is very much debatable though is the amount of benefit the city will get, and how to monitise that. I won't pretend to know that answer, but I think it will be fairly easy to figure out, and is the reason why tax payers will end up spending some money on the new rink, because the government will see some form of value in having these facilities in the province.