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Originally Posted by morgin
Without intending to specifically direct this at you, as I was very happy to get your updates when available, I do have to say the above is what leaves me a bit confused. I also apologize if I'm treading over covered ground as I've not read this whole thread. Based on what everyone involved was saying, KK especially, and the tidbits we got from the leaks, I don't think it's wrong to suggest that this seems a bit underwhelming. What we have in front of us now is the absolute bare minimum that I would have expected this project to include. All of the funding issues and contamination issues and pure political issues aside, I'm wondering if I'm missing something on why this is so impressive. It's one building with an arena and a convertible field house. No details on how the arena design might be beyond state of the art, no details on their vision for the waterfront and integration with the community. Just a lot of "yadda yadda that will come" and hand waving over the renderings being early. I mean, I do know a bit about development work, and given they started talking new arena in 2006-2007 or so, I just don't really understand what the reason for revealing this was at this stage. They could have shown this off 4 years ago as I'm sure they knew everything they've told us then. Or they could have gotten further in the planning stages and tried to use the wow factor of what the buildings would actually look like and function like to try and sell the public. This is some weird limp in between.
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No worries. I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of the design that was released, I'm not even part of that scene. You have to understand, though, that a sports complex tying in an arena and a football stadium / fieldhouse into one massive building is incredibly ambitious. From a construction and development standpoint, it's pretty much new territory. We're getting that here in Calgary.
As for the design that people see, I highly doubt that's the final scheme that we see. It's so early in the process these things can massively change. I've seen that before, many times, on other large projects.