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Originally Posted by Robbob
I read somewhere that the economic impact for Alberta for the Calgary stampede is around 400M. I know it is probably over simplifying things, but it works out to around $40M a day. That probably is ballpark value to the city/province for a single concert date. Even if it is half of that for a top tier concert, having 5 to 10 big events like that would probably add the equivalent of another stampede. That wouldn't suck for the city.
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Uhhh, I doubt it's even close to that. That's $2100 per attendee. If those were the numbers, cities building arenas would be a no brainer.