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Old 12-14-2016, 12:42 PM   #3060
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Originally Posted by GioforPM View Post
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.
The boulevard was in place of Bow Trail, not in addition to. The land taken up would be virtually the same - just in street form rather than current highway form.

The arena/stadium takes up a lot of (otherwise) taxable land.
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