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Originally Posted by GullFoss
Given how important luxury boxes are to revenue - isnt that the entire reason theyre pushing for a new arena? - I can't imagine this arena doesn't end up in the between 17th avenue sw and the bow river.
The biggest blight in downtown calgary is the stampede grounds. Its a waste of space for something thats only used 10 days a year. Move the stampede grounds to Balzac and move on. If the kids want to go on rides, take them to Balzac. Otherwise, you can have the rodeo in the new stamps stadeum, and parties in cowboys and kraft and rachmans and national like we have today.
I continue to beleive the best proposal would be to develop the stampede grounds to create an arena district like LA or Toronto has. Give the flames a working interest in the land so they can profit from the development - that allows them to make back money from building an arena.
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Bahahahha "give"???
They can buy the land and pay tax on it if the Stampede's lease allows for it and the Stampede allows for it.