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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Considering you said this an hour ago, it'd be nice.
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“This project was announced, frankly, without all of the homework being done,” Nenshi told reporters Monday. “It’s not even half-baked. It’s not even in the oven yet. This is a matter of stirring the batter and putting it in the oven.”
After asking the Flames group to look into plan B he unilaterally nukes the other option ...
“The thing about a new arena project – and I’ll use those terms because CalgaryNext, the West Village, is dead – but the thing about a new arena project is that our first criterion has always been public money for public benefits,” Nenshi said. “So, it really is up to the Calgary Sports and Entertainment [Corporation] to figure out what the public benefit is.”
"The whole point is there's no proposal. It's just an idea," after the CSEC rolls out a plan with a funding model
“When I build a library or a bridge or an interchange,” Mr. Nenshi says, “if I went to the public and I said, ‘I’m building something with your money that has a 25-30-year life cycle,’ they would ride me out of town. If I went to the public and said I will build a community hockey rink that is only going to last two generations of kids and then we’ll have to build a new one, I’d be kicked out of town.
- the Saddledome is 35 years old and will easily be 40 before a new rink will open
“I will point out that I made the mistake of reading the comments and it is interesting that the calls to our office, the emails, the comments have been 99.999997 per cent saying ‘please Mr. Bettman stay out of it’ and ‘no there should be no public money for this,” said the mayor.
Maybe that same guy that calls the airport 5 times a day has Nenshi on speed dial too! Either way 99.999997% of Calgarians means 4/10 of one person is in favour, he may have made that up 
“Perhaps in other cities that he has come to, the city councils have just written checks based on back-of-the-napkin proposals without any consultation to the public or without any analysis,” he said.
“That’s not how we operate here. We have a comprehensive framework in place. We’ll see what the numbers look like come spring and have a very big public discussion about it.”
doesn't look like we get that public discussion as he unilaterally killed it this week. Either way I'm sure those that worked hard on the CalgaryNext project loved hearing it was back of a napkin and had no analysis. That's nice