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Originally Posted by dino7c
Field House is public recreation, #1 priority in the city's own words
that is really a terrible comparison...especially with the flames contributing 200M and generating the majority of the ticket tax money
city is gonna spend millions of a field house eventually anyway in this project or elsewhere
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Yes but it does not stop at that, the other 200 million is the big mystery piece that because of the indemnification deal essentially means the city will have to pick that up. Ken was very vague about that and said they would have to sit down and hopefully get the province to kick in some money. Alberta is only liable for damage to the environment ensuing from the existing scenario, not the cleanup. This puts the city on the hook for 400 million, not 200 million.
Bottom line is this is the most costly location they possibly could have picked. You could tear down the Saddledome completely and build a brand new building(with better parking and access then the west village) from scratch in the same location for 450 with no city money.