I still can’t buy into the ‘event centre’ argument myself. Seems to be causing more of a hurdle than anything. Internally call it an event centre if that’s what you want to plan for with all the benefits mentioned, but I still think it’s been detrimental to the process.
That said the talk of how major amenities of the arena should be ‘facing outward’ and the siding off of ‘celebration spaces’ does make me excited for why I was happy to have CMLC a part of this process in the first place. They are the big picture of how the arena is a part of a cultural district rather than a cultural district being put to serve an arena.
I was generally pro (city giving money to an) arena before CalgaryNEXT, then I became very anti-public lonely to an arena. If CMLC is at the helm I’m back closer to the former because I’m excited with what they could do with one.
Tl;dr pretty darn good interview.
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