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Originally Posted by Lord Carnage
Agree with you on Fire Park or Marlborough, though as someone else pointed out, maybe you could do a CalgaryNEXT kind of thing in one of those locations, and maybe that changes the boundaries a bit.
As to why Tsuu T'ina? I'm not thinking they would either, but it comes down to a key structure in revitalizing (or building) an area. Maybe an arena going there becomes a cornerstone in a whole development... and that is appealing to them? Again, not a civil engineer, or a money guy, but if it inspires a bunch of development like the city is hoping to get out of East Village, then maybe Tsuu T'ina likes that? AND the possibility of having the new Calgary Event Center on their land might be a feather to them too??
All just maybes really... would take someone way more knowledgeable than me to know if they would want to, but I don't believe it is a 0% chance of it happening (maybe not much higher than that though).
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In order to be more attractive than the City's offer, the First Nation would have to offer some sort of package worth ~$500,000,000 in subsidies to the Flames. Just imagine the scale and value of development that would be required to induce the Tsuut'ina First Nation (a community and organization far, far smaller than the City of Kingston) to take that sort of risk. It would have to forecast billions and billions of dollars of development to make it worthwhile.
I don't see it as even a remote possibility.