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Originally Posted by Table 5
One thing CSEC has to keep in mind, is that if Calgary does get the Olympics, the needs and wants of the Flames will most likely be secondary to the event itself. While there will most likely be more federal/provincial funds to build something, I doubt that the Flames influence and control of the project, and what's built around it, will be higher than what they potentially have now.
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That's one way to waste money and insure you have a white elephant on your hands. You don't design a building for a three week event. You design it for meeting the needs of the next quarter to half century. The design should still focus on the needs of the primary tenant, to make sure you have a primary tenant in the building for the same time period. The same can be said about the area around the arena. If the City pushes to construct a building with the same constraints the tenant currently faces, and it does nothing to address their business objectives, why would that, or any other tenant, be interested in using the facility in question? The success of the arena, and the district around the arena, are contingent on having a tenant to draw people. There is a symbiotic relationship here that both sides have to acknowledge and use as a means to strike a fair deal. It does not appear they have taken this approach.