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Originally Posted by sureLoss
because the proposed standalone Calgary Fieldhouse is essentially a half stadium by itself.
The standalone proposal has seating for about 10000 and has the goals of hosting IAAF championships and other tournaments.
And it is also envisioned as serving the whole city of Calgary not just a small town or a suburb of a bigger city.
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So the plan is to build a small indoor stadium for the purpose of hosting track meets and maybe a lower level pro soccer team? 200 million seems like an awful lot of money to spend on something like that as well.
I'm not getting why building a central, multi-use super field house is a great thing for the public. It seems like the public would be much better from some very good field houses built in more suburban areas (where most young athletes probably live) dedicated to amateur sports.
Trying to lump that into a place that shares parking and space with a professional football team, and hockey team makes it even more useless as a field house, and provides very little value for amateur ahtletes, etc.