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Originally Posted by dino7c
Lol is this a serious post?
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Actually yes it is. I hadn’t really thought about this before, but it’s effectively doing what Katz and CalgaryNext tried to do. The whole point of Katz’s demands and CalgaryNext was to be more about real estate versus a tenant of an arena. CSEC we’re just dopes about it with CalgaryNext because they proposed a terrible location and wanted the city to be on the hook for what could potentially be nearly $1B in site remediation costs, but that was their main hope; they want to diversify.
This would actually be amazing for the city, and if there was a brand new arena that the Flames then leased all they get is the operating revenue.
The money isn’t in the arena, it’s in the development around it. Everyone should be praying for this option to work out.