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Originally Posted by Barnes
You don't think that we should expect details to be concrete by now? After 7 years of this, if they don't have concrete details by now Ottawa will be in their second building before we are.
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I agree that 7 years is ridiculous, but look at the situation they are in an ask yourself how they can have concrete details when the Flames don't even own the land they want to build on, and they don't even know if whatever type of funding/land swap they want to do with the City will come to pass (because clearly they are not going to fund it all themselves)? The exact location and project budgets will play a huge role in what's possible, and at the moment, none of that is locked in.
I think anything they release at this stage will only be idealized visions and general aesthetic concepts...sort of like when the city released their vision for East Village a decade ago. Any sort of rendering they might release will be relatively conceptual, since there is no confirmation of the exact site and funding and thus, no one has an idea of orientation, access points, etc that you need to build around. You don't spend money on designing specific details of a building at this stage. They might have a wish-list, and an idealized vision, but there's no way they have blueprints ready to submit for construction.