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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Pretty hard to believe our baseball stadium once housed a triple-A team. It's, uh, lacking.
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But at the time, at least in the early years of the club, it wasn’t that much of a step down from most ballparks in the PCL. It had a fair bit of renos from the previous Foothills Stadium when the Calgary Expos played there.
Vancouver and Edmonton’s stadiums were no better, same with some places like Vegas and Phoenix. Hawaii was in the league and played in cavernous Aloha stadium.
In the early 90s did places start to require updated facilities and more seats to pay for those amenities. Calgary couldn’t compete.
Again, Flames biggest blunder in this whole arena thing was not putting shovels in the ground in 2006 like they had planned and very easily could’ve. Social media wasn’t driving agendas and creating “outrage”. Mayor and Premier were Flames friendly at the time would’ve helped push it through because of that alone.
But they paused and then the social environment changed drastically and they had to fight more forces just a few years later…And even though the city taxpayers were on the hook for a very small portion of the Dome in 1983, that was forgotten.