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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
And yet the real life examples fly in the face of those opinions.
Look at what is happening around the new arena in Edmonton.
Look at what the arena did for the surrounding area in downtown WPG.
Look at what the new arena is doing in Detroit.
People hate on the location in Glendale Arizona, but compare the area today to what was there prior (in was mostly fields).
Development begets development. WV is a barren eyesore right now. Arguing that the project would do nothing for the area is flat out folly.
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The thing is you're just moving money around here. Its a different calculation when you're moving a team into a new city because you are actually creating revenue for business (and even then you're still taking money that would have been spent elsewhere and moving it different businesses). In Calgary's case - you're just moving revenue from places near the Saddledome and to places near CalgaryNext (except for those few events that could be in the new arena that weren't in the old).