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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Is that really true? If you have a 25,000 person event at the field house, what other things would be happening that wouldn't be impacted?
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You're right. People who think that this building would be open season for the public need to seriously evaluate whether or not they have ever attempted to use the current professional or semi private sporting venues before. When/if the facility is ever available, you can guarantee it will be farmed out to the highest bidders - corporate and well funded clubs. The average Joe will more than likely only get the privilege of setting foot in the space once or twice a year during some sort of community event. The Flames co. are not going to allow anyone near these spaces when professional events and practices are going on.
There's a big reason that many world class cities do not allow these types of venues to partnered exclusively with private entities. Calgary needs a field house badly but funneling millions of taxpayer dough into something taxpayers will never control or at the very least have a relative degree of priority is beyond insane.