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Originally Posted by Robbob

42 million for the 9 Garth Brooks shows.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3348821/ga...ntons-economy/

Sure the city doesn't see a lot of that directly because it goes to businesses. The city would probably see some trickle down from transit and parking revenue.

I haven't been following the nuances of the thread so maybe I missed a discussion on this. But this 42 million has been refuted a number of times.

The source of the figure is the Oilers entertainment group and then it goes on to talk about arena finance details.

Not to say there isn't an impact on the local economy, but most unbiased sources say the impact is almost impossible to accurately measure and if they were to guess it would come in much less than 42 million.

Im terrible at linking articles, but ill see if I can find a couple.