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Originally Posted by Barnes
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This is why I figure the Fieldhouse is really not good feature of the CalgaryNEXT proposal, even despite the proposed cost savings. A fieldhouse development will push the entire west village away from the rest of downtown, will reduce the value of the land to be developed, collect less taxes, and deny the city of the full potential of this land.
With that said, I do think that there is room to incorporate the hockey arena and event center, especially if the development can be put on the SE corner of the West Village lands (limited to the Mercedes and Greyhound sites). This should, hopefully, leave enough space to re-align bow trail and allow some the nicest elements of the West Village design to be realized. (Including the riverside development, and the "grand staircase" up to the Ctrain platform).
There also would not need to be much done in the way of immediate remediation to get the arena development underway, as the Greyhound and Mercedes sites are entirely outside of the former Canadian Creosote lands.