I figure Plan B will have the city chip in money/breaks to get the arena built at the Railtown location (~4th St SE and 10th ave) to mostly support Stampede development, build off of what is going on with the East Village but mostly to save WV development for a different time to avoid committing so much to remediation and infrastructure when large scale infrastructure money is so focused on the Green Line. That location is so much better than the WV for people moving and helping transform the blight that is everything the Stampede has control over (the CMLC has an uphill battle getting those dinosaurs to do anything good). WV can be fixed better down the line, that Victoria Park area has been doomed ever since the CS got their mitts on a lot of the area.
Then what Bunk says with the McMahon area can work as well because there is a lot of wasted development potential up around the University in that space so that is where a different funding model could work to support that. Not having a stadium/firldhouse would be good because almost without exception such multi-purpose indoor facilities suck but if McMahon renovations/reconstruction can be factored into the project costs of a fieldhouse things become more palatable.
Some simple rules of how the structures of the deals would work out: CSE owns both the arena and the stadium; cover any ticket tax shortages and any surplus goes to support minor hockey; if the word 'viability' is mentioned by anybody affiliated with CSE over the life of the arena it is a $1M fine
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