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Originally Posted by Tyler
Follow the money trail. Who stands to benefit more from building on the Stampede grounds?
The Stampede, or individual investors/speculators/Flames ownership?
The West Village will be a redevelopers dream. Cheap or free land with guaranteed government dollars for clean-up coming if we are to secure the Olympics (see Toronto Pan Am games as an example).
The Flames owners already hate that they have to play out of a stadium on land they don't own and give up revenue to the Stampede. That's one of the biggest drivers of them wanting to get off the grounds.
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But who holds the ultimate leverage in the situation?
The City owns the Stampede land and the West Village land. All means of development runs through City Hall.