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Originally Posted by Freeway
The whole thing basically boils down to two things.
1) The Flames seemingly didn't communicate well with the City during the planning stages, otherwise the City probably would've steered them towards the East Village in terms of being their best bet in actually getting public money.
2) The majority of Canadian arenas are now built privately, as municipalities are increasingly cash-poor. Edmonton and Calgary are the only buildings in Canada built using significant amounts of public coin.
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Quick google has (arenas and stadiums) BC Place, Rogers Place, Mosaic, MTS, Investors Field, BMO Field, Tim Horton's Field, TD Place, VideoTron all built with public money, unless that's not what you meant.
I certainly don't like the Edmonton deal and I'd have to dig into the others. I don't mind public money as long as it's done responsibly and using some creativity.