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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
I guess i am just a little surprised that Nenshi is being raked over the coals a bit here...
this is all i found in the print media:
“The thing about a new arena project, and I’ll use those terms because CalgaryNEXT, the West Village project, is dead,” Nenshi said when asked if the federal government’s planned Canada Infrastructure Bank could be used to pay for CalgaryNEXT.
“But, the thing about a new arena project is that our first criteria has always been public money for public benefit, so it really is up to the Calgary Sports and Entertainment (Corp.) to figure out what the public benefit is,” the mayor continued.
while one doesn't get sense of tone from print, the words themselves don't seem particularly inflammatory... One can argue that his use of the word 'dead' doesn't leave any room to maneuver, however i highly doubt those words are devoid of context from being a part of the council discussions off the record...
From my interpretation, CalgaryNext wouldn't qualify for addition monies from the Canadian Infrastructure Bank, and without that source of funding, the project is, in his opinion, dead...
doesn't seem that bad to me?
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I thought the same thing. It's about providing better concrete benefits for public partnerships. If everything came through and made sense it could be a fit, but that's not the scenario.
It's not a huge thing to comprehend. I read the useless Sun article on the Flames franchise providing public benefit. Ok, fine. They already play in a competent facility for hockey. If they lose out on concerts, what does that have to do with the hockey team?
Maybe Olympic funding could resuscitate it, but at this point that is hearsay.