I am a big backer of any sporting project in this city, and honestly don't care if the City pays a large portion of the sporting infrastructure. That said, this project is just an absolute joke. For years I listened to Ken King talk about this project and how they weren't going to rush into it and make it public until they've dotted the i's and crossed the t's. I went to the CalgaryNEXT Opening presentation last year like a kid in a candy store, and left with nothing but disappointment because it was some half-assed pipe dream with a bunch of crude artist renderings. This is just one PR nightmare after another. Ken King just looks like a used car salesman now or the boy who cried wolf.
If you are coming and asking for public funding, you goddamn well better have a vision of something that it will be extremely hard to say no to.
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