It's pretty simple.
10 years after the Dome was built it was obsolete by modern arena standards.
This is why the Flames haven't rushed any decisions on a new project. This is why they keep delaying. Think about it, while everyone has bene putting up arenas and stadiums from here to mars in the last 10 years. The Flames have been watching closey, gathering information, and projecting forwards. If anything, i'd rather they delay plans 10x then build a billion dollar arena/stadia complex and get it all wrong.
Last thing this city needs is a giant cowboy hat structure being erected in the middle of our city. You think Western Night is bad now... lol. Hyperbole aside, my point is you don't want an ugly eye sore. You don't want the West Village site to remain with the same problems it has, infrastructure wise, if this is where the arena is indeed going to be built. You want to do your due diligence and ensure that if you're going to put a district of any kind in that spot you have room for growth in 20 or 30 years from now and that on top of the remediation problems this is going to take time. My guess is plans have changed about a dozen times in the last 10 years.
Just a note on the Cresote. The area that's infected is actually a very small area of ground water near the river bed. I am sure the process is no easy deal to handle, however, the actual area is not as big as it seems or sounds. Plus the city has already conducted the studies on how to remediate this area so that's all been done.
Last point. The city just purchused, a couple weeks ago the GSL land for 34 or 35 mill. I believe they already own the greyhound land. I'm not sure about the area around the pumphouse theater though.
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