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Originally Posted by GGG
Why?
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Because each project is already very, very complicated and involves many stakeholders with diverging interests? It's hard enough to reach agreeable deals for each project on their own; intertwining them only makes it harder.
It's simply not putting all of your eggs into one flimsy basket...either project could fall apart, which would essentially reset the board to zero for the other.
Also, if the arena deal can only become viable due to the Olympics, then maybe it isn't worth the $$$? This whole process has been about deadlines and pressure points - it's been hard enough to get the rest of the bid presented to the public by now...if the arena had been intertwined in all of this, I think it's a lot less likely that the whole thing didn't get killed by council 10ish days ago (reset the board to zero for the arena).
Lastly, from an optics standpoint, the feds and provincial gov's don't want it to appear that their money is going to an NHL arena (for obvious reasons). My conspiracy theory is that Murray gets given a 'free' new lift, runs cut, and other upgrades at Nakiska, and ponies up more on the arena side. I'll be interested to see if we're able to follow the money for anything at Nakiska.