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Originally Posted by #-3
. I don't think anyone can honestly say they thought any of the things brought forward were surprising. So sitting around talking about how bad of a concept it is and that it will never/work never happen just seems disingenuous.
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There were a lot of huge surprises for me.
Parking? No parking. For a 100,000 person venue. That's just plain stupid.
Infrastructure changes? No infrastructure changes. For one of the biggest sports facilities in the nation, built in the middle of downtown in a major city.
A funding proposal that includes the actual costs of the project? No, it conveniently leaves out a number of things, including the site clean up which will likely be the 2nd biggest line item in the entire project.
The biggest surprise by far is that this business came forward, cap in hand, asking for huge amounts of public funding, and then handed over a plan that looks like a student project where two of the people did all the work on the last weekend before it was due.
In my mind not being able to come up with a clear plan, or a coherent funding model, or a realistic timeline, are all perfectly valid reasons to not want to hand over hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to a highly profitable private corporation.
If this is honestly and actually the best they could come up with after 10 years of planning, then they are not competent enough to complete this project.
If this is not the best they can come up with, then they are just playing games, and so "No, I do not support the current version of CalgaryNEXT", because it is a bad proposal.