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Originally Posted by Kavvy
Bunk has made it clear ownership would be nuts to use west village due to the contamination and forcing the city to shift priorities away from the east village to some degree.
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You've got this wrong as you're assuming that any future use would have to "cleanup" the creosote. In fact a strategy of "containment" is also on the table. If the latter, then an arena, with surfaces like parking lots over the worst contaminated areas would actually be the best solution vs the more costly "cleanup" scenario that would be required if residential housing were to be put up.
As for using the Stampede grounds, it has one very large negative against it from the Flames's perspective - you'd have to share revenues with the Stampede Board. Why share when you can keep it all?
For those reasons, the West Villiage is hardly a 'red herring', though it does comes with it's challenges.