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Originally Posted by fleury
I don't know what the situation is with your CFL team, because I don't follow it, but when he says a billion dollar project, I take it to mean it'll be not just an arena (though that'll probably be 60% of that budget), but rather the development of the surrounding area into a more entertainment district. So I imagine not only you'll have the arena, but maybe casino slots attached, restaurants, bars, shuttles, etc. Basically what the Leafs did with the area around the ACC. In today's era you don't want to build like the Sens in the middle of nowhere and hope that fans come. There has to be that infrastructure around the arena so before and after the games people have things to see and do. At the end of the day I'd imagine the first phase may be a billion dollars, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's more to be announced a few years in, to include much more because a billion probably isn't much if you decide to build condo's and office towers and things like that.
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It means it will be an arena and new football stadium with office facilities to house and localize all the Flames sports enterprises (Flames, Stamps, Hitmen, Roughnecks). You are probably looking at close to a billion right there depending on how elaborate the football stadium will be.