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Originally Posted by FLAMESRULE
Jesus H...I dont get the negativity for this right now.
1) We all think this is a world class city. This helps to make it a reality. Cutlure, sports, tourism, will all benefit.
2) We all hate city / prov / fed tax money going to it. This does that. The city owns the building and land, and the users (ticket holders, developers, etc) pay for it. The CRL is generating tax revenue from a location that was providing next to no tax revenue
3) We all hate McMahon + the Dome compared to other arenas. We get a world class facility for toddlers to Olympians / professionals
4) We all hate polluted sites, especially in the middle of our city...we have one of the largest in Canada (apparently). This helps to take care of that.
I was thoroughly impressed with the vision. Of course the devil is in the details. But this is a humongous opportunity.
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I 100% agree with this.
It is so interesting to hear such diametrically opposed views, with the negativity seemingly coming from nowhere.
The Flames' owners are willing to put in $200MM of their own money for something they are not going to own.
There is already a saddledome tax in play on current tickets.
Of course there is going to be a benefit to CSEC, in what form we do not know, but I am going to guess they will raise some money out of this.