A few random thoughts...
If I had an employee that has been working on something for over ten years and this is the result of it, he'd be canned. He wouldn't have made it to ten years.
On the other hand, if the owners really think this is the best starting point to negotiations then shame on them because it's not that great. They obviously aren't too serious about getting an arena built. They're probably selling the team or moving it anyways and the arena talk is a convenient way out for them to save face and blame the city to salvage their reputations.
Can the city put a ticket tax on events starting now and direct the funds to a new facility? Could the Flames even stop them from doing that?
Based on the other thread with eleven years of arena talk by the Flames, they've really done nothing other than slap together a poor presentation about CalgaryNEXT.
That was a great explanation of the CRL, and the Bow definitely contributes to the tax base of the entire area. I know that there's different deals with developers, but what did the city do financially to help the development of the Bow? Obviously a much different scenario than an arena but I don't know the answer.
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