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Originally Posted by OldDutch
I don’t think you see a bid ever again in Calgary. If people said no to $400 million for $4 billion with 80% recycled facilities, what would rebuilding COP and the Oval cost?
Sure we may have a field house and arena by then but I am willing to bet those will be $400 mill in city money with another $400 million needed to rebuild the shutdown facilities totaling double the rejected offer.
The deals get worse from here sadly. The hard core no vote will be happy, but the “I want Olympics and hope they try again with a better deal” bloc will be sorely mistaken.
Feel laziness and anger did it in for good.
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It woulda been nice to see the bid that was going to be submitted to the IOC and, as presented in this thread the bid in 1988 was lackluster, and the actual result was much better. Hence the Saddledome became iconic rather than the original drawing.