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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Hey Gary feel free to kick in like $200 million if you think the arena needs to be replaced that badly.
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I honestly don't know why people get so up in arms about public money going to a new arena. I don't remember anyone complaining in the media about the $250mil public library we are building, or the $200mil dollar National Music Center we built. Both of those project used almost all public money, and will generate next to nothing for the economy.
Now that the Dome is so old and Edmonton has their new fancy arena we are going to start to see a number of big ticket shows/concerts skip Calgary all together. Garth Brooks did 8 shows in Edmonton, that's 8 days 15k+ people going out to dinner, having drinks and staying in downtown hotels for the concert. Probably 30% of the people that went to those concerts are from Calgary. That is money that doesn't go to the Calgary economy.