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Originally Posted by shotinthebacklund
I would like to see a poll for the people unhappy with the current CalgaryNEXT proposal exactly where your dislike lies.
design?
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There is no design, there is merely a vague sketch. The residential portion doesn't even make sense as proposed. There was no site plan presented, I guess because none exists. The mess of roadways wasn't addressed at all. Furthermore, does the Field House design conform to the needs of its users? I will bet the Flames put the needs of their football team first. The only positive I saw is that they seemingly want to build a contemporary looking building, and not a faux-brick, horse shaped barn or whatever.
The funding proposal relies on cannibalizing demand for residential development in the rest of the inner city. The East Village redevelopment is already funded using a similar model, until it's been paid back it would be beyond foolish for the city to compete with itself in the West Village.
I want to see the West Village fixed up as much as anyone, but the time isn't right. There are still vast swaths of inner city land that don't require untold hundreds of millions of dollars of cleanup, for example, the rail lands south of the East Village where Bunk proposed the new arena go. The main difference is the Flames would have to buy the land (and/or partner with Remington, an experienced developer) and not be handed the land.
Basically.