Looking back it's crazy how much buying the Calgary Stampeders changed everything. They were rumored to be starting the new arena process in 2007, not in the west village.
If they had just gone for a standalone arena in Victoria park, they likely could have got $100m or more in public funding quite easily and probably would have had an opening day of 2011 or so.
No here we are, ten years later and they're still not even sure themselves what they're trying to do anymore. Just appearing in public to lazily go through the American sports stadium threat list during one of the worst economic situations in our city's history.
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