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What I found interesting in the City's reply, was the much lower cost estimates of remediating the Eastern part of the West village. It's the same as the East Village, and I bet probably the same as any near-railway land north of the Stampede.

I think the field house turns this project into a white elephant. It requires near-term remediation of heavily polluted lands in exchange for basically no immediate tax revenue, and a more extensive roadway upgrade. All to get a facility that is not ideally located for its supposed core purpose.

I wonder if anyone has looked at the economics of just putting in the hockey arena on the Greyhound depot and lands to the east? There's more than enough land there for a hockey arena, and this would leave the bulk of the WV land free for development that could mostly follow the original City ARP. This would also allow a much longer timeline for remediation of the Domtar site.