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Originally Posted by GGG
The problem with Calgary next was too much land was being used for the stadium leaving not enough money in the CRL to pay for things like the clean up and infrastructure requirements in the area.
Just building an arena in the WV would be interesting but I'd still worry about development canibalization.
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Do you mean less residential availability? Maybe. The old 2010 plan called for a huge boulevard that would have been at least equal to an arena/entertainment area.
The attraction for me on the calgaryNEXT notion (flawed design concepts, financing aside) was getting the stadium/fieldhouse/arena. Once that's off the table, yeah, WV can be developed however the City wants. I think taxpayers will eat all of the cleanup costs and a large part of the development infrastructure costs.