Kind of torn, I was here for the 88 Olympics and it was just a great time. The legacy facilities that were left behind are still used regularly to this day and many could still be reused 30 years later with a bit of refurbishment. If they can keep the cost reasonable then I'm totally on board, even if we take a small loss overall the infrastructure improvements will be a boon to the city. A new arena has to be part of it, that is non negotiable. I say yes but there has to be fiscal sanity involved, if we can get the feds and province on board, get the Flames to kick in a couple hundred Mil towards the arena, use existing facilities where possible, farm the ski jumping out to Whistler since it's a waste of money and come out of it close to a break even then I'm on board. If it's a multi-billion boondoggle then no thanks.
Edit: You should state in the original post that this is an anonymous poll, better results that way as people won't be afraid to be singled out based on their honest opinion.
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