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Originally Posted by Bunk
If it's West Village, my guess would be at minimum 5 years worth of remediation and infrastructure work before they could even break ground on the actual arena. It's a tough site from this point of view.
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I keep hoping they find a way to build it on or around the Remington lands in Victoria Park. The area around the Stampede grounds is already a bit of an entertainment district, and would be a more natural fit for something like this. Trying to recreate the same thing in the West Village seems somewhat redundant, and would probably stunt a lot of Stampede/Victoria Park momentum as well. At the end of the day, the Stampede and Flames SHOULD be great partners, even though they seem to hate each other.
The only way I see West Village making more sense is if its a cohesive all-in push by all levels of government to fix the Infrastructure mess of Crowchild/Bow trail, a complete re-development of the waterfront into an entertainment/sports/condo district, and with it all being the central focus of an Olympic bid. But that to me sounds like at least a decade of work and several billions of dollars.