The city wants the fieldhouse to be in a separate location as the new football stadium. The city, quite rightly IMO and for reasons that have been mentioned quite a few times in this thread, thinks that there would be negative aspects to allowing the Stamps to have their new building also be the fieldhouse.
Basically, as Kavvy said, it appears the Stamps/Flames are attempting to get the city to pay for a huge chunk of their new stadium by calling it a fieldhouse. It may be altruistic on the part of the Stamps but I doubt it. They just want the money.
If we're going to do what is best for the amateur athletes, we will see a fieldhouse build in another location that has nothing to do with the Stamps stadium.
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