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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
I would hazard a guess that the Dome sees 150-250000 unique visitors each year (and I would guess that maybe 40% of those attend 2 or fewer events). There could be around 1 million people in the metro area that don't set foot in the building on an annual basis.
It would be really interesting to see any actual metrics on this, but I reckon the Flames are the only ones that would have anything resembling this info, and it doesn't exactly favour them in this discussion.
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I would like to see a poll about the 1 million people who don't set foot in the the new library building and how they like their money being spent on it ? Or how about the 1 million people who never set foot inside the Bow Building downtown, which is actually paid for by EnCana/Cenovus, that is the leading reason for the East Village CRL? The difference between these 3 is the proposed development around the new facility and the increase in taxes from these developments. The CRL access to funding is leveraging the cities ability to borrow money with the funds to be paid back out of the ticket taxes. When people throw out $450 million ($200 million is actually for the field house portion that the city has identified as a priority that hasn't been funded yet) from the city they are purposely inflating the costs. The proposal could be cut by $200 million tomorrow if they removed the field house portion.