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Originally Posted by Domoic
Perhaps a dumb question - but why does the Saddledome have to be demolished in all of this? And what will go up in its place?
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The Saddledome has to be demolished for a couple of reasons:
- The land it sits on was traded to the Stampede Board for a parcel north of the dome that they currently own (for the new arena), and the dome land is a part of the future Stampede expansion plan.
- Barry Munroe said in the council meeting afterwards that the dome is at the end of its useful life and has significant structural issues that cannot be fixed, not to mention the ongoing costs of keeping a facility like that in good nick. Whether or not that was just a selling point or accurate, I don't know.