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Originally Posted by Travis Munroe
Good post... I do ask why you are ok with some of the city funded projects you don't use over an arena? (Just curious)
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Point of order: the arena will only have 1 user (CSEC). I can use bike lanes if I want to, peace bridges if I want to, libraries if I want to... but I'll never be able to actually use the arena if I want to. I'll just be able to buy exorbitantly priced tickets to attend events there where not a single dollars won't ever go back to the owners/funders of the facility (AKA us).
If the Flames care at all about public perception they'd find a way to put a significant actual real public use element into the operations so they can claim that they're providing something to the public for the public dollars with at least a fraction of credability.