[Groot]

Since everything has been repeated as nauseum, here's an angle that I haven't seen discussed (and I apologize if I missed it or did come up).

Ticketmaster.

When it comes to cost recovery, revenue etc, something that I rarely if ever see mentioned is how much Ticketmaster will make off service fees selling tickets at new Event Centre. I don't have my statistics in front of me (based off of the city and CSEC projections from earlier plans) but Ticketmaster is set to make literal tens of billions on this one location alone over the projected lifetime of the project.

A few other NHL clubs have gone to other ticketing providers, and I have a fully-fledged business proposal I had completed for a large corporation in Alberta, that CSEC actually had interest in. The corporation I prepared it for, dumb as rocks, didn't even explore it further cause they said they "weren't a tech company". That's all I'll say with my NDA even though I'm not contracted by that company anymore.

If the City and CSEC offered tickets on an in-house platform the ticket cost could go down by a fair amount as service fees are reduced, and those fees themselves actually go into operations for the Event Centre itself, or to CSEC/Calgary to repay investment.

There's a lot smarter people than me out there and I wish this was a focal point more than it has been as it has huge financial implications which could alleviate many concerns.