I’m worried that clause will get stupif but also that it leaves the city on the hook for the community rink. The extra rink will be pitched as non-essential to CSEC and require the city to pay up when it doesn’t fit in the budget.
Overall glad it got done. The city should have a venue of arena size so I think the city would end up spending 200-300 anyways on that type of facility. So getting the best deal possible out of the flames makes sense. I didn’t like the spin and the lack of the city presenting a fair evaluation like they did for CalgaryNext and the first arena proposal. Instead the city just presented the Pro argument. They also made nebulous claims of the 140 million in tax revenues that is clearly displaced. So not a fan of the city presentation but overall the deal is about as good as would have happened.
Also buy extending and delaying this process we will get over 40 years out of the building.
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