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Originally Posted by browna
or if the area was to be the location of the National Music Centre or other destination for the Arts, as well as adding some sort of educational or social service centre as Ottawa, it may have played well with the Mayor, moreso than even a Field House.
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They could have had that opportunity a few years ago. Working with the Stampede on their Youth Campus Development would have been another option. Ships have sailed though.
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Originally Posted by 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.
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Half of the staircases in the seating bowl are slanted. I'm just guessing, but I suspect the age of the existing building would make it very difficult to renovate to modern codes with much savings compared to starting from scratch. I do agree that we are missing a nice 5-8k size venue, but I don't know if there is really the demand for one?
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Why does it have to be one or the other? Why are only the things that you value important?
I agree with much of what you posted here. But I also want to see a cutting edge arena and gathering area, like LA and others. They also add to a city.
A vibrant city needs parklands, AND streetscapes, AND an arts community, AND museums, AND sports facilities, AND...
Listing subsets and claiming they are what is important seems to me to be what is small-minded. (not directed at you)
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The key distinction I would argue that differentiates all of the things listed from an event complex is accessibility and availability to the general public. Some of those things may have small user fees, but nothing compared to arena tickets. I suspect the benefit per citizen per dollar spent ratio is also higher for the other items (obviously difficult to quantify and certainly subjective to personal preferences)