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Originally Posted by TheKurgan
You would think the people who don't want public money to be spent on a new arena would be happy. Flames asked for public money, Nenshi said no, Flames say okay we won't build a new arena. There done, no public money is going to be spent, and the Flames are still in Calgary for now. Isn't this exactly what the "no public money" crowd wanted?
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They wanted the Flames owners to pay for everything and be grateful for the opportunity.
Like I don't get it. The arena costs 450M according to the Calgary Next proposal. They offered 200M and 250M in ticket tax. People seem picky on the ticket tax so say they get that 250M from a Bank instead of the city. They pay an extra percent interest and boom. They paid for the arena.
Do people really expect them to pay for all the infrastructure in getting an outdated part of the city up to snuff? God forbid they get free land that was a contaminated parking lot before.