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Originally Posted by Roughneck
In all seriousness the library will likely have a a couple hundred thousand more visitors than either the Saddledome or Rogers Place in 2019, so yeah.
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How do you figure that? 45 Oilers home games plus 30 premiere concerts selling out each year gives Rogers Place 1.4 million attendees, and that's a conservative estimate because I'm not even including Oil Kings games, niche events like Harlem Globe Trotters, other concerts, people using or attending the attached community rink, or the bars and restaurants and hang out spot (Ford Hall I think it's called). To equal that the library would have to average 3800 people a day, and that's a complete turnover of 316 people every hour of every day for an entire year. I saw somewhere that our entire library system had around 2 million visitors each year, are you suggesting that out of the 20 branches across our expansive city 75% are choosing to go to the central location? I don't think you have any evidence or even any sound reasoning for your claim that one library location will outdraw Rogers Place. Libraries are essential for the City and I actually like the Central Library after checking it out but it's not a bigger draw than a big league arena.