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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I don't know, I'd think there is less likelihood of a scaled down version, now that the city's costs are fixed
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Agreed.
I think with things announced today, this arena skips past some red tape and politics involved potentially in the future with the City. The CMLC, as although they are technically arms length from the City, if they don’t like something proposed or there is some people with agenda not liking the CESC, they’re running to council or Nenshi to complain and hang that threat over the Flames. This eliminates that.
The Oilers rink got neutered from the original design and aesthetic, in part due to overruns and inability to decide who pays for it when construction was well along.
Hopefully the Flames don’t have that occur but at least it then falls on them 100% from any original designs if things get going any snags occur and they have to make quick decisions...and we don’t get some compromised design because it had to be run through the various filters of civic government like up north.