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Originally Posted by RM14
I would imagine a field house within a $800 million dollar facility will have access to much greater resources, personnel and amenities.
$200M towards a stand alone field house would be very much less awesome to play/train in by the general public and amateur atheltes.
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I have such a hard time buying this. When I think of amateur athletes, I think of Jr high, and high school elite athletes who practice or train several days a week. As a parent, I would think that putting that training in the middle of a giant arena/stadium/field house would be about the least awesome thing I could imagine. Not to mention that you are driving through rush hour to get your kid to and from downtown after school. You get there, navigate to a distant parking spot, and walk 20 minutes to get into your training area. Your 1.5 hour training sessions all of a sudden take 3 hours of your evening.
Most well run pro/college sports around here build a kick ass practice facility off site so they don't have to deal with all the going-ons of their stadiums/arenas.
A much cooler thing of the Flames/Stamps to do would to be to build a big multi-use field house/training/practice area somewhere off site that is more convenient to families in exchange the city financing their stadium.