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Originally Posted by New Era
You are aware that there is more to an arena footprint than just the actual arena? What about service area? You know, like when deliveries are made, or concert staging is done, or extra service equipment needs to be in place near the building? What about parking? You know, where the thousands of paying fans need to leave their vehicles when they come to the game? But hey, you can cut out arenas in photoshop and past them on a google maps screen capture, so that's all that matters. Don't need any of that other space that it appears every single arena in the world needs.

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Those service functions you name are usually internal to the building. That's true everywhere
Parking - very little if any will be attached to the arena site itself - the beauty of the Stampede and downtowns in general is they have immense amounts of parking - and peak arena/event time is the opposite of business hours.