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Old 09-17-2015, 12:43 PM   #3049
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Originally Posted by nfotiu View Post
What I was reading is that a field house was identified as a important need for Calgary and was proposed for foothills a couple years ago, somehow the cost for that ballooned to 200 million dollars for a mixed use field house. If I am reading right, the Flames/Stamps proposal is to take that 200 million targeted towards the proposed field house, and instead call the Stamps stadium a Fieldhouse/stadium and pretend they are delivering 200 million worth of value for a field house to the public. When in actuality, you can get a very nice, functional field house for a tiny fraction of 200 million that wouldn't have to be shared with the Stamps, Concerts, etc.
Fabulous coles notes of the fieldhouse issue.

Big problem as well is with the fieldhouse, like remediation, while both were projects that were planned in the future, they were both unfunded and did not have any sort of date in mind, so they're being forced on us a lot sooner than we would otherwise be considering.
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