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Originally Posted by Table 5
That may be the case, but while you can proceed with the big picture West Village vision without the stadium in there, you can't really do the stadium without thinking about the rest of the West Village issues.
The Flames don't have to look at this from a big-picture standpoint, but the City does. And if it doesn't make long-term sense, I doubt you'll get much approval/funding on the stadium front. For the City, the Flames stadium has to be one piece of a master puzzle in West Village, not the one piece you do now and figure out the rest later. It would be silly to build the stadium as the Flames want it, and then 5 years later try to re-align Bow Trail.
West Village and the valley corridor was always going to be a hairy, expensive, mess. Which is why I think the whole dollar picture needs to be considered. If the Flames don't want to be part of the long-term fix of that mess, they need to build on a more traditional piece of land.
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I don't think the Flames need to contribute to an environmental clean-up they have no relation to. You can argue other costs, but not that one. Where is that more traditional piece of land? Spruce Meadows? Balzac?