You're grossly over estimating the "value" citizens of Calgary will get from CalgaryNEXT.
What value do you think we would see from CalgaryNEXT that we're not already getting from McMahon and Saddledome? A shopping district that <1% of the city will use since there's no parking? A fieldhouse that will play second fiddle to both of the professional sports teams needs and again, suffer from the problem of no parking (Gonna take your training equipment on the train?)
The benefits from an Olympics are exponentially greater than a bloated, poorly thought out, glorified YMCA with an arena attached to it for Calgary's wealthiest businessmen to profit from, and I say that as someone who doesn't have an issue with tax payer money funding some of the new arena.
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