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Originally Posted by getbak
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Here is a summary of the interview,
- CalgaryNEXT is just the vision of what they want to create. This is just the beginning of what we want it to be. In terms of the final details of the designs in each facility, that still has a long ways to go.
- Project will take 3 years, plus and extra two maybe. With each problem you might be looking at an extra 6 months and so on.
- Worked with people about the possibility of combining the event center with a convention center. decided not to.
- Considered to take on renovation to McMahon.
- The Fieldhouse works because the Calgary Stampeders will only play roughly 10 games there.
- If you do everything separate, you cause more problems with parking and infrastructure.
- It's a very nice fit to integrate amateur sports and professional together.
- discussed some other plans that was much crazy during early stages
- If you want to be serious about it, you have to look at the vision first then do all the details in the next stage.
- Hopes the funding won't change
- The next step is, authorization from province, traffic studies (parking)
- No plan B as the creates a competition from the two plans
- To a certain degree, feedback from the consumers may change what the vision is
- The gift is having a clean site to work with. Wants to help with the city, province and federal fix the problems with creosote.
- Does not know how much it will cost to clean it up.
- KK says the city Councillors loves the project but they need to help find the money.
- The city will own the facility's
- City owns it but ownership will run it
- Ownership will put $450M into it.
- Vision opens Olympic bid if anyone was interested
- Surprised that no one has asked why it is called an event center and not hockey rink