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Originally Posted by Beatle17
Sorry but this part kills me in every argument. The City spends money on infrastructure for every business in Calgary via road improvements, sewer and electrical. This is the infrastructure everyone means, so even if they want to develop the area for housing and business they need to spend this money, nobody should be making this out to be that the City is spending money for the Flames owners. They will be spending money to get a business to invest in the city and pay taxes. Everyone should remember also that the City gave the land away to the developers for the East Village to get something started in the area, which will take another 10 years before we see any tax money recouped in the area.
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And I'm for infrastructure to support a new arena. Just don't pay for the arena. Did the city pay for the Bow? Of course not, and there would have been massive outrage had they done so. Add the +15s and all the other crap? By all means go for it. But tax dollars are finite, and giving an already profitable company a freebie is quite a waste. If this city had no other issues at all, maybe, maybe pay for the building. But we have a lot of issues that are only going to grow as the city does as well.
PSL's should be the play here. The season ticket holders will bitch and moan non-stop but so what?The season ticket holder is in the building 1 out of every 7 nights a year, everyone else is in there about 1 every 40 nights a year.