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Old 10-26-2014, 06:32 PM   #2339
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Sorry can you explain? It's 5 minutes from downtown, it's on the LRT line,next to Deerfoot and it's about 25 acres big. and the "drum roll please" is that a flames owner owns the land!

It's 2 minutes from the Zoo FFS, is that a bad location?
It's a bad location, yes. Not the worst case scenario, but not ideal, either. I know it's seems close, but in terms of that perfect city vision of having a downtown arena complex where people spill out of the game infiltrate downtown, giving it nightlife, that location fails.

To create that perfect after game "spill" into the downtown you need people to be able to walk from the arena to downtown. Yes, it's right on the C train line, but can you imagine people walking from firepark to downtown? No one would do it.

So therefore, that'd mean 100% of the hockey/football game "spill" into downtown would have to take transit, a taxi or drive to go downtown. And as easy as it sounds to do one of those things, you're going to cause a large portion of the casual "lets walk over to bar X and grab a pint" crowd to say "**** it, let's just go somewhere closer to home, I don't want to drive/hop on the ctrain/pay a taxi, etc".
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