For the record: I never said the West End was "blighted". However, it is contaminated and definitely not attractive, revenue generating or "big city-like". Actually "contaminated so you can't build or grow stuff" is close to the definition of blighted.
The 2010 West Village plan wasn't a CMLC plan. CMLC seems to have only become involved in anything to do with the west end in 2015. All they are doing is the environmental assessment.
Like I said before, I understand the "no tax dollars" sentiment. Too bad the sentiment wasn't there when the city bought the land (and they bought more than just the creosote infected lands).
Calgary has the oldest arena in the NHL (save MSG which was been completely redone), a very very tired football stadium, no decent athletics facilities and no really decent destination entertainment district. I think the west end would have worked. IMO it's pretty much a dead issue, and the only question is how little of the foregoing Calgary gets.