The Great Arena Reset Era: Stampeders Purchase - West Village rumblings.
03-29-2012
Flames buy majority stake in Stampeders
08-11-2012
Calgary Herald article
http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...420/story.html
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One possibility floated on Twitter Friday describes a combined arena/stadium near the Mewata armoury with commercial space, possibly for restaurants, bars or a hotel.
King declined to comment. “I’m not going to affirm or deny any speculation on possible sites,” he said. “Let me say that what we’re thinking about could be one of the defining projects in our city for many decades to come, but if discussed prematurely would just be totally unhelpful to all the stakeholders involved.”
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01-27-2013
Ron MacLean comments on HNIC that the Flames will be releasing their plans for a downtown arena in 3 to 4 months.
Metro News article
http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary...s-to-them.html
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Ald. Ray Jones, council’s representative on the Saddledome Foundation board, said Sunday he hadn’t heard of any new arena plans and the Flames have not made any requests to the city to that effect.
If such a proposal were to include a request for financial involvement from the city, Jones said the matter should be put to the citizens of Calgary.
“I would love to do it with a plebiscite,” he said. “Let the people of the city decide: Do you want your taxpayer dollars spent on this?”
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Ald. Andre Chabot doubted a plebiscite would be necessary, noting polls within the last few years have shown Calgarians are overwhelmingly opposed to putting tax dollars towards a new arena.
“I think the general public is of the opinion that it’s a fairly lucrative industry – certainly insofar as the players and the kind of money they’re making#– and they don’t feel that they should be contributing to their profitability,” Chabot said.
Ald. Gord Lowe said that sentiment is reflected around the council table.
“As far as I know there is precisely no appetite in council to put public money into a private venture,” he said.
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The Calgary Flames told Metro on Sunday the club had no immediate comment on the matter.
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02-02-2013
STH Session recap by rage2
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was at a STH appreciation thing last night, where Ken King did a small Q&A before the game. Someone asked about the new arena, and the answer was it's been in the works for the last 4 years, and we'll hear more late fall.
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02-02-2013
A comment from Sidney Crosby’s Hat that I laughed at.
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I'd be very surprised if any plans were announced ahead of the October civic election. Nothing puts you in City Hall's bad books more than creating an "election issue" for them.
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