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Originally Posted by GioforPM
While doing deals with First Nations governments is often a bit dicey (see ring road, Hidden Valley, etc), can anyone say that a deal with Salt River Nation would turn out worse than Glendale City Council?
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A deal with the Salt River Nation is a complete unknown. We are talking about a sovereign nation where law is enforced differently. How this would play out is an unknown. I would think this would greatly affect how the facility is run and more importantly the insurance that is required for all events. Safety services would be greatly impacted. I doubt the Salt River Nation could meet some of these requirements and they would not be open to allowing outside interests to participate in this function as it would affect their perceived autonomy or sovereignty.
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Originally Posted by greyshep
Obviously there is a lot of scale that I may be ignoring here, but looking at that map really makes Glendale look like a part of Phoenix. Makes it even more surprising that they cant get adequate support out there.
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Phoenix is big,and that map doesn't do it justice. As well, many features that make the metro area difficult to traverse are not shown. Once you start adding the mountains that break up the various municipalities you get a better idea of why getting around can be difficult. To give you some scale, Metro Calgary is 5,107 square kilometers in size. Metro Phoenix is 37,725 kilometers in size. If you drive from the far southeast reaches of the city to the far northwest reaches it can take almost two hours to make the trip. Add in that you have 3.25 million people in the city and it becomes a challenge to get around, even with 10 lane highways in spots.