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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
It is disappointing that the proposal didn't include a gathering area such as those you mentioned.
However, I think it is also pretty narrow-mined to suggest no one will 'go out of their way to go to the bars'. The majority of people going to the games would be parking somewhere downtown (likely where they already park for work) and walking to the game for some number of blocks. Going to bars and restaurants before and/or after is a desirable and consistent aspect of a downtown location. And every central arena/stadium sees this affect.
Suggesting Calgary wouldn't is hard to accept.
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How dense does this land have to become to replace the missing development that is the massive footprint of an arena to make a CRL feasible?
Complete guess, but what, does the footprint take the place of 2 full size condo buildings plus a small park?
Now, take the East village as an example as an successful CRL experiment. Subtract the CRL value of 2 high rises, subtract arena debt, contentment clean up, and potential traffic realignment - how does the math add up to use CRL?
What did I over simply (as I am sure I did)?