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Originally Posted by nfotiu
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.
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No, this is wrong.
I don't think you are fully envisioning what a complete multisport fieldhouse looks like.
The original Foothills project was always going to come in around $200-205 million; ever since I started hearing plans for it 5 or 6 years ago.
It's a big project and should have been funded by the city yesterday.
These are from 2013, but the I believe the $200million number has been around since 2008.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...rdle-1.1351158
http://www.calgaryfieldhouse.ca/cmfs...s-join-forces/