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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
The thing is this isn't just about you, it's about the city as a whole.
I won't ever use the fancy library, I won't ever use the field house but I know it's good for the city.
In the end building a new facility makes more sense than renovating the old one. The biggest question is how to come to a point that benefits the Flames and the city a similar amount.
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There's an interesting dynamic raised by the bolded parts above. While the benefits to the City and the Flames/CSE are quantifiable in terms of economic gain, the benefit to the individual fan is presumably a better experience at the events they attend. For individuals who don't attend events the ostensible benefit is civic pride, I guess, at having world class facilities that can host world class events. I feel like a key question has yet to be asked of the fans who foot the bill for the ticket tax and those individuals who don't attend the games/use the facilities: what is a better experience/enhanced civic pride worth in terms of your dollars (collected as tax), and the loss of opportunity to spend those dollars on other projects?
Still others, I wager, would also like to be asked if this sort of civic pride enhancing outlay should be a priority right now at all.
The individual does seem to get lost in the process despite there being an economic impact at the individual level.