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Originally Posted by Chaparraljam
If this has been proposed before, please forgive me. I'm not sure why they don't simply finance the project themselves and then use a ticket tax to recoup their investment. We have no sales tax in Alberta, so having the people who actually attend events paying 7% extra for the privilege to do so seems to make sense to me.
That's how the Corral was built.
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They are proposing a ticket tax which funds somewhere between 250-350 million of the project. Unfortunately they are looking to do more. Though that amount plus what the owners were going to contribute gets you pretty close to a stand alone arena.