Some interesting comments from Jeff Davison today regarding the new Event Centre - seems like they're working on a proposal for the Flames to start negotiating with. This was included:
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Calgarians will vote next Tuesday in the 2026 Winter Olympic plebiscite, but Davison said he wants to move forward regardless of the outcome. He added there could be some synergy and cost savings if a deal can be done.
“You don’t want to have competing priorities for dollars that the city has to spend. Interesting enough with that Olympic bid you wouldn’t need all of those renovation dollars. There are probably $150 million would come out of the budget just because there would be a way to cost share a little bit in terms of building a new facility rather than retrofitting a bunch of older facilities,” he said.
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He seems to think there could be some way to use some Olympic funds for a new arena.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4647185/c...roposal-talks/