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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It seems to be a lot of the disdain towards the original announcement was due to the underwhelming concept pictures. That's fair because even the staunchest supporter of the project would have liked to see something more revealing than what looked like very rough renders. The fact of the matter though is that having a large fieldhouse connected to a world class arena is an innovative idea and details like the glass roof (I believe this idea came from the new Minneapolis field) on the field house are cutting edge facility design. If done right I have no doubt that Calgary NEXT would be the "awesome and innovative the arena proposal" King said it would be but it seems King and the Flames owners really underestimated how easy the populace can be swayed by concept renders. I'm sure if they could do it again they would have got a studio to crank out some glossy futuristic concept that would have had nothing in common with the final project if they knew that concept renders mattered this much in swaying taxpayers.
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If they didn't know how much concept renders matter to convincing taxpayers to drop some serious coin on a sports complex... well they are treating this more like a humanities paper than Flash apparently is.
Good advertising convinces people pay for things - what a novel concept!
Edmonton's
renderings and current
live view (wow, it almost looks like the renderings. I thought this wasn't possible). Calgary Next renderings had people milling around on Bow Trail for crying out loud. There's a difference between expecting a "finished product" and this rinky dink presentation by KK and the Flames after TEN YEARS of development.
The brothers muta can talk down to the us unwashed masses all they want. Subjectivity doesn't come into play here. The announcement was botched, plain and simple.