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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
The one thing I will say, with no idea what's going on with these proceedings, is our city, especially under this mayor is netoriously difficult to deal with. Probably going to be a lot of starting and stopping on this project, and given the Flames are the only ones with any motivation to communicate on this project (and rightfully so, they want the rink the most) it will be them delivering the messages.
I guess you could say it's their own fault for how early they communicated, but I'm not going to critique them looping in their fans on their high level plans. I also don't envy them having to work past this cities very archauque way of doing business on a project this large.
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But apparently the first the city heard from the Flames about an arena project was only a couple years ago. And when their proposal called for 1.1 to 1.5 billion from the city, city council said uh, no. Not a chance.
People are making this out to be more complicated than it is. The Flames have submitted one proposal to the city, and it calls for far more money than the city is willing to provide. That's it.