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Originally Posted by johnnybegaudreau
For the earlier posters. Fieldhouse is just a generic name for a sporting venue. It's used a lot in colleges in the states. Many colleges have their fieldhouse/training facilities like UM, a few basketball teams too etc. They are very much full sized stadiums and or arenas (in the case of bball) with all the amenities for housing football, basketball, track and swimming and other stuff.
This will be a transformative football arena with amenties for public use... see the Calgary Fieldhouse project for the types of events and sort of set up that they will want for public use. All kinds of amateur sports groups need something like this. The rumored 200M i think is fair given that many amateur groups that need this sort of facility built. Not to mention the Flames foundation for life has built amateur arenas and given money to amateur sporting facilities in Calgary for the last 20 years. TBH that's way better than McMahon which sits empty 90% of the year. The stamps play what 10 games a season maybe 12 if they go the distance. It be great to have that thing booked all the time. Also as others have pointed out having a transformative stadium complex allows for MLS expansion, potentially concert series, and many many variety of other events. Smart move by the Flames. It's one I predicted on here months back in the arena thread. Financially, economically it makes sense on mutliple levels. I think it's something Calgarian tax payers can behind too.
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This also makes sense when I try to visualize this project in the west village. I was trying to visualize a football stadium, arena, entertainment district AND a fieldhouse and I just couldn't picture where it would all go.