Back in 2011, at a STH event I attended, King said that they had chosen a site that was "a couple blocks north of here" (here being the Saddledome) and an announcement would be made shortly.
At previous events, he had always spoken in vague terms about where they were looking (usually saying that they were considering up to 4 different locations near downtown), but at that 2011 event, he was pretty definitive that there was only one location. Then, at the next event I attended, he was back to speaking in vague terms, but was now talking about a much larger project.
My assumption is that once the Flames owners began discussing purchasing the Stamps, the scope of the project changed (or possibly, they started discussing incorporating a football stadium into the arena plan and that led to the discussions about buying the Stamps) and the original arena-only plans got put in King's desk drawer.
Now, they can pull those plans out and dust them off.
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