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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
As long as I've lived here, I've heard the words "world class city" bandied about, as to whether this is such a city, whether it's becoming such a city, and what would need to be done to get there. Well, simply put, Calgary will not be a world class city until the west village has been reclaimed and developed somehow. It's a gaping hole in the metropolitan core. Putting a sports facility there isn't the only solution, but it would certainly do the trick.
The hurdle isn't the high-level concept, it's the cost. If someone can come up with a way to make an arena project there make financial sense, fantastic. I'm not optimistic that such a thing is possible currently or in the foreseeable future.
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there's a lot that goes into the consideration of what exemplifies a "world class city"...
not sure if the lack of development in a section of the river valley far from the downtown core is high on that list, considering the scale of development of the core already and now the development of the East Village on top of that...
its always a bit confusing for me about who is buying all these condos with East Village in full swing and University City also ramping up...
If a private developer wants to roll the dice on that area, they are more than welcome to do so. However, the urgency for that massive clean up seems to be of the manufactured variety: "Hurry and clean it up so we can develop it."
The reasons this hasn't happened is that the cost vs the benefit has not swung the pendulum to the clean up side of that ledger...And i suspect that it will sit dormant for at least another 15 years. We'll see how it goes...