[The Familia]

I'd love to see the Coral completely gutted and renovated into a nice modern 8000 seat arena. We don't have a good venue of that size. Would be nice to keep the historical building but modernize it....who am I kidding. The Coral, Saddledome, McMahon, Foothills, and Talisman Center will all be standing in either their current or a worse state in another 15 years.

To me it seems Calgary has lost a lot of its Can-Do attitude it once possessed in the late 80's. We were the little-city-that-could and punched our way to the top by obtaining such things as the Olympics and building a world-class (at the time) arena. The whole city was united and really strived for the best. I find too many people in this city don't care about the growth and appearance of Calgary anymore. The transient population doesn't care about the city. They want their money and then they will leave. I'm glad that the tide appears to be turning somewhat with projects like the Peace Bridge, East Village, BOW tower, new library, and music center. The crying that surrounds these projects though is disheartening. Time to regain our swagger and aim high.