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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Encana and Cenovus provide positive economic impact to the city and create jobs. Having a world class skyscraper like the Bow is important to the city.
The government should chip in for the Bow.
I don't get what part of the arena argument is unique that can be applied to any other building that any other business operates in.
Hockey is a sport that is shown to be economically self sufficient in Calgary. I'd rather the money go to sports/arts/music/museum facilities that can not exist without government funds yet provide positive impact on citizens of Calgary. I know it's all hard to measure, so please don't throw wrenches in my utopian line of thinking.
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LOL how does the Bow benefit a person like me that is not employed by EnCana nor is my job in any way influenced by EnCana? Because a big building is good for Calgary? Were the other tall skyscrapers getting lonely? EnCana was already here so what exactly is the economic impact of the Bow? Is EnCana not economically self sufficient?
Is a world class sports facility even better for Calgary than a skyscraper seeing people won't have to work for the Flames to actually get to use the facility whereas I get nothing out of the Bow? Honestly your post is hypocritical and I'm not saying that the government shouldn't have chipped in for the Bow because I'm for the government chipping in for an arena and if I was pro-Flames and anti-EnCana I would be a hypocrite as at the end of the day it's still taxpayer money going to corporation. You will always have a loud group that opposes taxpayer money going into anything but that doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day the city benefits. The Saddledome in it's day was a Calgary landmark that the Corral never was. The new facility will be an even bigger/better landmark and the venue possibilities of the stadium/arena project are endless.