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Originally Posted by T@T
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?
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Sure. Lots of things are close to deerfoot, doesn't mean it makes sense. That location would have a set of lights onto Barlow, and then a ramp onto memorial, then onto deerfoot. All the traffic has to exit to the east, or through and business park to the north. It was not built for that density, and provides no long term benefit to anyone funding an arena. There needs to be commercial and residential zoning for this development to work, and at best you would have the former. Non-game days, it would be a dead zone. Not even close to a big enough footprint either. Ya you might squeeze the facilities, but no parking.
The west village allows traffic dispersion in all directions, a heavier population base within a 10 minute drive, better public transit access, and the best part, it fits with the plan for the area, as opposed to "bare land, build it there". There is going to be a heavy private investment component to this clearly, so you need development infrastructure to make an ROI.