I remember reading that one of the Flames owners owns Firepark though but yeah, it's contaminated and outside the city centre.
My choice is the area north of Stampede park and south of the CPR tracks. It was the favoured site since we started talking about a new arena.
It looks to me that the Flames are mostly financing the arena while the stadium-fieldhouse will need government money. This is no surprise as the CFL only survives with government financed stadiums.
For those citing Vancouver and Ottawa as examples of owners paying for their own arenas, remember both owners went bankrupt soon afterwards.
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