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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
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...
completely ignoring the estimated cost to the taxpayers.
1.2-1.7 Billion dollars?
Thankfully city voters sided with financial prudent during the last civic election
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He didn't pump up how good it was. But when Ron brought up the fact that the Edmonton building developed a previously undeveloped area of the Edmonton, Betman came back and pointed out that the Calgary ownership's first proposal was to similarly develop and undeveloped area of Calgary