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Originally Posted by dino7c
Are you honestly gonna compare Calgary/Edmonton to Las Vegas.
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It is business, and businesses do not ask for government money to build. At least not in the real world, unless it is something like an Apple or Amazon coming into town and creating 50,000 jobs.
Listen... Remember how small and tiny Chinook Center used to be? They did not ask for government money to build.
That was a huge redevelopment project that took years.
How many of the giant towers in the downtown core asked for government money to be built?
That is all I am pointing out.
The Seattle arena is not government financed. They put it all out there to get a basketball team. They were willing to do that with their own money, because they have confidence in their business model.
Do the flames not have confidence in the future of the team? That they cannot build the Flames brand? They have increased in value every year. Is that going to suddenly stop?