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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Bingo talks about the charitable contributions in the community. I guess. Not sure that's worth the tremendously ####ty deal they've offered. I love how King and CSEC are taking the old "innocent" approach of like "what? We just wanted the city to open a dialogue?'
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You guess?
That's nice of you.
They walked out a concept with an opening funding model. Nobody comes in with "the deal" when you kick off a negotiation. They're smart enough to know the city wasn't going to say "SURE!" and the whole thing would be done.
This is like the Gaudreau/Flames discussion all over again. You have to get things rolling with a structure and then either say we have no interest in this project at all, or we do but with these changes.
I really don't have a problem with any one that doesn't want tax payer dollars in facilities, I get it. I also don't have a problem with the Flames ownership looking to find a mixture of public and private funding to get Calgary something that could take the city forward. It's happened in other markets (one 3 hours from here) and they'd be stupid not to ask for it.