[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Cappy

You guys looking at CalgaryNEXT proposal with nostalgia are nuts! is it stockholm syndrome?

The presentation was brutal, the renderings were laughable. The idea of having the NHL rink attached to a Canadian Football League dome stadium was stupid. This along with the fact that the financials were a mess, a CRL would in no way cover the costs for the building or the area, it would have cannibalized the rest of the inner city, and the size of the facility would suck the life out of out the idea of having a live/work/play area.

This doesnt even include the fact that the likelihood of having that skyline in the renderings would take 20 years given the massive glut of commercial vacancy in this city.

The whole thing was a boondoggle when it was proposed and it is still a boondoggle in hindsight

It needed a monorail.