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johnnybegaudreau · 08-19-2015, 12:10 AM

I agree with Bunk's and a few others who've said the same things assessments of the project. I would add to them the following things.

- If you're going to go to the lengths to ask for that much public money.. where is the innovation behind the actual district concept.. there is none here. None at all.
- At 900 million. If the renderings are even remotely accurate the stadium protion of this is gonna suck for stamps games. I know it's "preliminary" and everything but whenever KK is involved in something I always come out feeling like I got scammed out of my money. The new stadium/filedhouse complex looks and has the feeling of cheapness to me. I don't get that same feeling when i looked at the preliminary concepts for the new Riders stadium or Winnipegs or any other building that's just been done. They look state of the art. This at least so far, looks like it was rushed, which if they've been working on arena concepts since 2006 and this paticular complex concept since even a year in a half ago. There's no reason for that. They should have a really good rendering done by now of what the concept could look like.

- the more i pursue this the more it reaks of the Flames rushing to a cheap solution in order to get public support for their private profit while the situation is optimal for them.

- In all honesty I'd rather be hated with a state of the art facility that is truly state of the art for swindling the council members who represent tax payers interests then try to save face with the community and get a compromise of a facility that again in 35 years youre gonna be crying is out of date because you compromised. It just feels shady car dealer salesmany too me. For example go all in. Build it with a retractable roof invest the extra 200 mill make the stadium a stadium first and a fieldhouse second. Ask for the public to drop 690 million in your 1.2 B stadium and go for it. make it truly state of the art if youre gonna do it. DONT HOLD BACK NOW. Like come on.

08-19-2015, 12:10 AM	#1747
johnnybegaudreau Draft Pick Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Calgary	I agree with Bunk's and a few others who've said the same things assessments of the project. I would add to them the following things. - If you're going to go to the lengths to ask for that much public money.. where is the innovation behind the actual district concept.. there is none here. None at all. - At 900 million. If the renderings are even remotely accurate the stadium protion of this is gonna suck for stamps games. I know it's "preliminary" and everything but whenever KK is involved in something I always come out feeling like I got scammed out of my money. The new stadium/filedhouse complex looks and has the feeling of cheapness to me. I don't get that same feeling when i looked at the preliminary concepts for the new Riders stadium or Winnipegs or any other building that's just been done. They look state of the art. This at least so far, looks like it was rushed, which if they've been working on arena concepts since 2006 and this paticular complex concept since even a year in a half ago. There's no reason for that. They should have a really good rendering done by now of what the concept could look like. - the more i pursue this the more it reaks of the Flames rushing to a cheap solution in order to get public support for their private profit while the situation is optimal for them. - In all honesty I'd rather be hated with a state of the art facility that is truly state of the art for swindling the council members who represent tax payers interests then try to save face with the community and get a compromise of a facility that again in 35 years youre gonna be crying is out of date because you compromised. It just feels shady car dealer salesmany too me. For example go all in. Build it with a retractable roof invest the extra 200 mill make the stadium a stadium first and a fieldhouse second. Ask for the public to drop 690 million in your 1.2 B stadium and go for it. make it truly state of the art if youre gonna do it. DONT HOLD BACK NOW. Like come on.