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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Quick Question.
What's wrong with the space between the dome and 9th avenue where the new underpass is?
Seems to me like it would be a perfect spot, right new the shiny new east village and with the Green Line coming, it would literally stop RIGHT THERE.
Seems to solve a lot of issues.
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There's not enough room to build both the arena and stadium/fieldhouse on that land. There's no ability to get any CRL money for that land.
That was definitely where they were looking a few years ago. I went back through my posts about the new arena over the last fews years, and I made one in 2010 after attending a STH event and King said that the new building will be "a couple blocks north of here" ("here" being the Saddledome). So, either they were looking at the rail lands or the land south of 12th Avenue where the parking lots are right now.
...Then, they bought the Stamps and the scope of the project grew.