All things considered, I think it was exciting to finally see a presentation with a clear image of what is happening, but what I saw was a little disappointing. With the amount of time the Flames have spent exploring this I somehow expect them to come out with a more polished final design and a more reasonable funding plan.
I foresee years of fighting about money ahead of us, and I don't like it but I have a feeling the Flames will eventually win. I get them incorporating community facilities to rope the city in, but
I feel like if the Flames were offering to front half the money, and scrapped the CRL plan this could be a 4-5 year thing. Them offer to pay about 20% and looking for tax money from 4 different places will drag this out for 2 or 3 extra years.
I kinda hoped we would avoid the whole mess Edmonton got into, but that just isn't realistic.
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