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Old 03-15-2018, 11:29 AM   #4912
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Originally Posted by Pellanor View Post
This weekend I had an opportunity to chat with somebody who knows quite a few of the people involved on both sides of the negotiations. Here's the impression I got through our conversation.
- It was pretty much a done deal last summer. If it was anybody but Ken King AND Nenshi negotiating, it would be done.
- The owners feel insulted, but will likely be back at the table within a year.
- The owners make a lot of contributions to the city that aren't really talked about. If you take all of it into account, the team is effectively subsidizing the city with the proposed deal.
- As we all agree, the team has done a terrible job with their presentations / pr on the whole issue.
- The city has also responded poorly. Calgary Next had a lot of potential but was shot down without much debate.

I'm not sure how accurate all of this is, but it was interesting to get his perspective.
Except Nenshi was never negotiating.
There's no chance that the "owners are subsidizing the city". This is not an Arguement, because it's not possible.
-again, CalgaryNEXT was dead the day it was proposed. It's literally impossible to make work with anything remotely close to the proposed financial setup. It did not have potential, it was a disaster, and Ken King (and whoever else was in charge of that proposal) should have been fired that same day.
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