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Originally Posted by Freeway
I think both sides felt they had a good deal for their specific interests before the pandemic utterly mangled existing supply chains and caused cost/time escalations for everything they would need to build the thing.
But what the heck do I know?
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If you're the Flames? Maybe strike any number of good deals in the last 15 ****ing years instead of trying to hardball into the ultimate deal? The first project didn't work on polluted land for a number of reasons, so the can was kicked down the road. Their next move was the city of Edmonton was stupid, and the Flames tried to chase that stupid to the point of trying to install their own puppet mayor when a real mayor didn't budge on their demands, except our city is smarter and didn't cave. Now a pandemic happened and that was a factor that had them blame the city publicly while they cheered in the backroom for successfully stopping the current deal due to rising costs.
But ultimately they failed a hundred ways from Sunday dating back more than a decade while being held up as "smart businessmen" by far too many in this city.
****, sorry for the rant, but I'm personally happy to keep having fun in the Dome before we get a majorly scaled back, barebones, money making, cookie cutter arena that prices a large percentage of the city even further out of attending local events than before.
