That's the conundrum. The best locations for an arena, stadium, and entertainment district are going to require some creative use of the land and improvements to infrastructure. If the Flames wanted to build an arena in the middle of nowhere, they would have bought up some farmland near Balzac and it would have been built by now. Cheaper, easier, but infinitely more horrible.
Corporate seats and boxes are too important of a revenue source to the organization to have it anywhere but in or very near downtown. And that means that any suitable location will be "problematic" in some way, which does set the stage nicely for indirect contributions from three levels of government in the form of infrastructure upgrades.
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