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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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After Dave Bronconnier more or less singlehandedly ruled development for 20 or so years - to the significant detriment of
anyone but developers in Calgary - I would hope that the City demanded a proper proposal. Unfortunately, that's not what the Flames ownership (or KK) gave them. He provided a half-baked idea about how the public could provide most of the funding for the arena and the ownership could take both the credit and the resultant profits. Great if you're an owner - not so good if you're a city taxpayer.
Perhaps the City would be more amenable if the ownership turned the Flames over as a community-owned entity (like the Green Bay Packers). THEN both ownership and taxpayers have a stake.
This whole enterprise has been brutally mismanaged and horridly communicated from Day 1 - and anyone blaming either the City or Nenshi for it is looking in the wrong direction IMNSHO.
Time to dump KK and start over if the owners want to get anywhere.