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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Is that really facing the new arena? Isn't that basically looking at where the current Saddledome pedestrian bridge crosses? The new arena will be a long way north of that.
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No, the swoopy arm thing over the entrance is where the Saddledome bridge is.
It's hard to tell precisely from the renderings, but I'd say the angle of the image I posted would be from approximately where the big wooden "Stampede Park" sign is right now by the Stampede Administration building north of the Saddledome. The road in the foreground would be Saddledome Rise.
If you look at about 1:48 of the video I posted above, it shows how this fits on the footprint.
It looks like there's an empty block of "something" between the entrance to the BMO Centre and the SW corner of the new arena. In this rendering, it looks like a low-rise condo in that space.
So, with the new arena being a block north of there, the view from the new arena to the new BMO will be even worse than that rendering. You'll see more of the blank grey wall and less of the interesting stuff.
This shows the building elevations...
The new arena will be across the street from the big grey block on the right side of the East Elevation image.