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Originally Posted by New Era
Why would it be detrimental to corporate participation? I don't understand this angle?
Build it and they will come? It's not like this is a terribly remote location. It's 10km from the downtown core, or 1.5km more than a trip to UofC. As an alternative they could pick worse locations.
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You answered your own question. It's just not the same as being walking distance/1-4 train stops away. Staying an hour extra at work, or grabbing a pint downtown before heading over to the game seems a lot easier than driving yourself or getting a shuttle to the outskirts.
Of course, they could mitigate this with VIP shuttles. The experience could actually be pretty good - leaving downtown at 6pm, you'd have very little rush hour. But, this would not be cheap. Making this work well would also all be predicated on having airport style access/egress - while it shouldn't be too hard to design well, it's unlikely that they would nail it perfectly.
It comes down to one thing: what do the people making the decisions to buy corporate boxes want? Many of them would be in their SW&NW beds sooner after a game, but there would still be a big psychological barrier to going further away. Also, inconvenient for hosting clients from out of town, who have to get back to their DT hotels.
Keeping close to status to status quo, and these decision makers will keep status quo and sign off as always, even including a significant increase. If you make a big change (location), it is more likely that the decision maker considers it more closely...suddenly they are actually scrutinizing the 50% price increase. Do we really need 41+ nights of boxes each year? I already know the 8 times a year my big hockey fan clients are coming to town...we'll just buy tix as necessary, and go to a nice steakhouse more often for hosting instead.
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Originally Posted by sleepingmoose
It's all awesome until the first person gets hit by a train there on day 2. What a terrible place for a level crossing.....
I understand why people want it, but I'm not sure adding MORE interactions between people, cars and CTrains is the best idea.
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Is the latest plan for it to be level? A few years back I thought the plan was to tunnel one or the other?