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Old 11-30-2014, 03:01 PM   #2897
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Originally Posted by Beatle17 View Post
Nope, the Feds and Provincial governments paid the full $110M construction costs. The city signed over the operations of the Dome to the Flames when the team paid for the renovations but kept the parking rights and a small rental fee from the team plus the taxes you noted above.
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Originally Posted by Bunk View Post
I seem to find conflicting information about this. Is there a good source somewhere?
From page 168 of the Official Olympic report, accessible here: http://library.la84.org/6oic/Officia...orw1988pt1.pdf

Funding came from the three levels of government and OCO '88...city and province 1/3 each, feds and OCO combined for the third 1/3.
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