Quote:
Originally Posted by N-E-B
This is just so ####### embarrassing for everyone involved. How incompetent are these people? And I mean the city and CSEC. Every single other place on planet earth seems to be able to get some kind of deal done. But not us.
I just don’t understand how they can’t get something done. It’s simply astounding. You cannot make this up. Decades of arguing, we finally get a deal, and the plug is pulled right before it starts? Give me a break.
The team needs the arena. The city needs the arena. Our taxes paid for the building in Edmonton, you’re telling me the province can’t kick in a few million bucks? But they have millions to give away for a vaccine lottery?
This is just frustrating beyond belief. The city and the Flames should be too embarrassed to even announce this.
|
Edmonton got a new arena because the city paid for practically the entire thing AND threw development goodies at Katz. That is the worst arena deal possible. Guess that is what happens when you're entire city has so little going for it that the thought of losing a perennially pathetic hockey team is devastating. City of Champions!!!!!
I'm sure that precedent of funding that arena is why CSEC feels the city can pony up the last $10mil to get this done. Alternatively, Calgary city council isn't shaking in their boots at the unlikely possibility if the Flames moving.
It will get done, this is just part of determining where the final chips are going to fall.