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Originally Posted by Jacks
This is what I'm thinking also. Put the money for the new smaller arena and the Saddledome upgrades into play and suddenly a new arena deal with the Flames seems like a no brainer.
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The fact that this isn’t being announced today leads me to believe it never will. If the flames wanted the new arena and Bidco wanted the games there was a deal to be announced today to push the bid over the top. I was sure this was going to happen and bitter that it was such a transparent ploy to succeed in the plebiscite.
The fact that instead we hear spin how tying a new arena to the bid would have hurt the bids chances makes it seem that something happened behind the scenes that prevented this no brainer announcemment from being made.
You take the 150 million or so in the bid top it up with the land and demo costs you were previously willing to submit. Leave the tax arrangement the way it was before and the flames kick in 250-350 of ticket tax/real dollars and we are done. The Flames were willing to do 275 million before and the city was expected to contribute 225. This bid has a “free” 150 million in it. How did they screw this up?