I think some are overestimating on the costs of building a fully functional roofed stadium/fieldhouse here. In 2010 some CFL franchise (arguably the stamps although the company denied it) did up a 28,000 seat stadium expandable to 40k I think it was CEI architecture. It's out there on google you can look it up. The predicted cost was 114million for the stadium and 136 million with a roof. I don't think it's much of a stretch to say add 100-150 million to this cost which will cover inflation and to cover other costs like making it completely convertible for a multitude of events and sports. So essentially what you're doing is agreeing to allow the public to use the stadium/filedhouse the 90% of the time that the Stamps aren't using it. City gets a much needed facility, Flames entertainment group gets a new shiny home for the stamps the combination of that and them building their arena in WV sparks redevelopment of that area forces the city/province and feds to get together and work out infrastructure and contamination clean up in the area eventually. IN my opinon there isn't a better partner for the city than the flames SEG they are good people and do good work in the city. We can be proud of our ownership here unlike up north.
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