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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
My last two posts make it look like I'm a big proponent of CalgaryNEXT but that's not the case. I only believe that both sides are playing the game right now. It's kind of like the Giordano negotiation where a lot of posters were throwing Giordano under the bus for his initial ask of 9mil. But that's how these things typically go in a negotiation. Best to take emotion out of it.
In the end they might never be able to bridge the gap in such a complicated development area and we might just get a state of the art rink close to railtown. Then maybe they can figure out a way to build a combined fieldhouse/football field close to McMahon and realize some savings by just combining those two instead of all three.
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This is me as well.
I think the city and the teams need new buildings.
I think the West Village needs a big anchor tenant to get past the clean up issue.
I think the stadium/arena plan could be that tenant if both sides can get down to it.
I think both sides have been silly in spinning their side to this point.
I find both sides pretty insulting to any one but a tabloid loving Calgarian.
If the city has reasons that the CalgaryNext project is worse than other ideas/projects then table those issues. As I think they need to do something relatively soon in that area. Their 2010 link and the fact that Urquhart said they approached the East Village team to get ready to plan the West suggests they don't plan on doing nothing for 10 years.
But don't insult my intelligence by suggesting the Flames were only 50% right on their project costs.