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Originally Posted by Slava
Is it the size of the market that we're concerned about though? The Flames have no problem selling tickets last I checked and this is one of the healthiest markets in the league. Just because these places are larger (despite the fact that this stadium in London is not the "one" place to watch football), doesn't mean that we have no option other than public funding.
And this morning, hearing from Brett Wilson just makes me realise the sales pitch that we're getting here. Now the new event center is going to be worth $1.5bn in 35 years and the city gets that today for the low low price of $275m It's incredible really how generous these people are to the city. We all know, if that was actually the case and actually an amazing deal, private money dive in an invest the cash. It's not though, so they aren't.
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But it's not hockey that's the issue. It's all the other events. An arena in New York, LA, and Vegas will pretty much be booked for something most of the year, and most of them are marquee events. Calgary would see Flames games, Hitmen / Roughneck games, concerts, the odd events (UFC, WWE, monster truck, etc). The arena would probably be empty 1/3rd of the time.