RE: Bettman intermission interview during All-Star game
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Originally Posted by Steveyoto
He said that the CIty of Calgary wanted the Flames to pay for the whole arena. Which completely untrue. Completely.
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he also pumped up the idea of how great the west end development would have been... completely ignoring the additional costs of creosote cleanup and the additional football stadium...
1.2-1.7 Billion dollars? How much of that burden was going to be put on the taxpayers?
Thankfully city voters sided with financial prudence during the last civic election
EDIT - the MSG Renovation was a billion dollar project, all privately funded...however, NYC by its very nature, doesn't have many centrally located options anymore...
a renovation to the dome would probably get to the point where you might as well do a new building...
for example, one of the challenges is that the cable roof system, that was once considered innovative, is under designed for today's travelling concerts and even some of the equipment used in some of the big name concerts... once you are dealing with major structural changes, the cost savings you have going with a renovation compared to a new building are getting to be a saw off