If I was the Flames... I'd be pretty tempted to shelve the whole shibang until a bit of a recovery.
This town is hurting. Badly. So many people, and so many businesses and so many communities are hurting. They are bleeding money, losing jobs, facing homelessness, building debt levels. People are scared, uncertain, stressed.
And then we have these guys coming in and being like 'hey city contribute hundreds of millions for us to build a nice new building for NHL players so they have comfier stalls to sit in before they hit the ice'?
If the city has extra money, reduce property taxes this year.
The timing of this could not be worse, and the Flames handling of this has been an unmitigated disaster, start to finish. Hey Realtor1, did they finally unveil a picture of what this will look like beyond what my 3 year old could draft with her crayons?
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