Geez guys, don't you think we all essentially paid for most of the Saddledome and McMahon in one way or another?
CS&E is putting up $450 million. Are you surprised that $250M they're going to reclaim by a ticket tax? The other $200M, the owners are obviously going to want a return on through general profits which we all pay for in tickets, concessions, merchandise, concert tickets, Grey Cup profits, etc etc.
The $200M from the City for the field house & communty rink is possibly fair, but it's the $240M CRL that I'd have the most issue with. This complex isn't giving anything to the West Village community that suggests they deserve to take $240M out of that fund. I'm not sure what the East Village CRL amount was for all of the public infrastructure but I doubt that area would have been as successful with $240M chopped off the top.
There better be operating funds going back to the City, such as the teams paying rent.
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