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Originally Posted by Cappy
- The flames are not paying for the remediation. The city/prov will be regardless of when it is done.
- the cost is atleast 450 million by the city. not including infrastructure and remediation.
- there is no evidence that the arena will be an economic driver and economists have consistently stated otherwise. This issue has been raised in previous posts.
- Exactly, WV has so much more going for it, so why beat a dead horse by spending a ton of money on a building that provides zero tax dollars to an area that already has a ton of potential
- I'm pretty sure faulting the Phoenix area for incompetence works both ways with respect to sports stadiums.
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I view this "the City can do do it" crap as building a massive complex shopping and entertainment area without an anchor tenant. You tell me how successful projects are without that anchor tenant? This project guarantees a steady flow of traffic year round, which will drive businesses into the area. Without that, it's status quo. The other problem I see is small town thinking by small town people. Calgary wants to be a world class city, but doesn't want to make the investments to do so. Until that mentality changes, nothing else changes. I didn't realize that until I moved away but it is true. Too many people without vision.