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Originally Posted by Benched
The other big issue, West Village. Until East Village is 'done' and the revitalization is complete, I just don't think we need to revitalize the other side of the city as well. I worry that this will split the 'revitalization' and that people may choose West over East and then we'll end up with a ghost town on the East Village. All those businesses and developers and people who moved out there on the promise of it being the new up and coming area get left holding the bag.
Project is an overreach. West Villeage doesn't NEED to be cleaned today, it's sat there for years already. Doesn't need to be revitalized immediately. Stamps don't support building a new stadium no matter how 'blah' the old one is. These extras are just sales wrapping on building the arena that the Flames need and can be justified, while trying to sneak in a stadium build on the cheap.
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This. The city has it's hands full with the East Village still. Why should they then agree to be leveraged that much more in the WV? In this new economic reality how much additional private development could we expect that wouldn't be 'poached' from the EV?