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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Agreed, so can we drop the "Flames do so much charity work for the city, we should give them want they want on the Arena" argument?
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Regardless of this report and anyone's thoughts on it, agreed, the argument to "give" the Flames what they want on the arena because of charity deal should be completely dropped.
They should be dropped because they are irrelevant. Any funding the city gives to the arena deal shouldn't be based around some sort of "charitable" donation big business, the Flames, as many like to pretend it is. The funding should be based on the city paying their share of something they want and will build some version of if the Flames didn't exist and or left town. The City would build and will build a new rink at some point, the Flames want and need a new rink. The city itself doesn't need more than one rink of this caliber. Meaning two parties with interest and stake and willingness to create a new rink just need to get together and figure out what is fair and makes sense for both of them.