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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
I like how some people have argued that not having a new rink will not prevent a lot of big name acts and events from coming, but when it's starting to actually demonstrate that this is in fact true, they revert back to, "So and So sucks, who cares if they play Calgary anyways".
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It most definitely is a benefit of a new arena. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. It's why everyone would give a non-zero amount of money to a new arena. If they say otherwise to that also, they are again lying.
Is it worth ~$850M* in public funding though? Not in my book. Somewhere between $1 and $850M*, yup. And I can tell you which one I land closer to.
*$850M is based on the $1.3B incremental cost from the Flames latest report (which holds together in my book) less the $450M the Flames are putting in (I believe the ticket tax should count as Flames contribution).