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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
Likely because all the I aren't dotted and the T's aren't crossed on important details such as, funding, taxpayer impacts, community impacts from a construction and infrastructure perspective and communication plans on these and many other fronts haven't been worked out and need to before you announce.
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Sorry, but you don't call it "crossing t's and dotting i's" when you don't even own the land you want to build on, and have not even released any plans/numbers for the community and stakeholders to respond to. Unless the Flames are entirely funding it themselves (highly unlikely), everything is still a pretty big hypothetical. Even if they have beautiful architectural renderings, it's still a hypothetical concept at best...you can't have final architectural drawings until the exact land and financing is known. Not having financing or land in place is not crossing T's...it's still writing an outline.
One thing to keep in mind is that the guy in charge of this project had absolutely 0 years of development experience when they started this project. Chances are good there was a massive learning-curve on Ken King's part, that's probably delayed things for quite a lot longer than it needed to be. I think the Flames did themselves a disservice by not bringing on someone with more experience to head this project.
Yes, it's a big and complicated project, but come on now...entire Summer Olympics and Big Digs have been planned and built in the time it will take the Flames to complete this thing (or to even release plans for it). And the hardest part is yet to come! At some point, I don't think its unfair to point fingers and accuse the Flames of incompetence.