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Originally Posted by getbak
They better not waste any time rehashing any previous ideas or anything that isn't about building the new arena 2 blocks north of the Saddledome.
The moment anyone mentions CalgaryNext or the West Village, the CAA ICON/City people should stand up and walk out and tell them to call when they're ready to get serious.
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I still want 2 blocks further north at the
Remington Jeff Davison Innovation Lot Lands. It's a rare opportunity to mitigate 150 meters of heavy rail exposure (arena south side/parkade north side - concourse spanning the tracks and probably tunnels underneath, too).
It would be pretty close to all 3 of Blue/Red/Green lines, at least 2 big city-owned parkades on 9 Ave, and plenty of surface parking to the south. And we wouldn't need to remove the beautiful trees on the current site.
And it would probably mean swapping the bus barn lands to Remington, who is at least in the RE business and more likely to make something of that parcel than the guys behind Cnext and a decade of debacle.