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Old 09-12-2017, 05:46 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by jammies View Post
So Calgary has 1,380,000 people that won't fit into a new arena, but Seattle has 3,780,000 such people? I'm sure that is vital in funding your arena, having as many people as possible around that won't be visiting it.
Well, there is a thing called a market. One market is substantially larger than the other. Then there is the revenue base. One revenue base is substantially larger than the other. Then there is the tax base to support some of the public costs. Again, one is larger than the other. Then there is the corporate support. One is much, much larger than the other. Can you imagine being able to say you have Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Weyerhauser, Costco, and Starbucks as your base? Maybe that 3.78M versus 1.38M people matters?
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