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Originally Posted by Infinit47
40 years in and there is barely anything around the Saddledome. Pretending it spurred some type of revitalization for that area is a joke.
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Okay? I don't think anyone claimed that it did.
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Originally Posted by Infinit47
The people who run the city of Calgary aren't stupid. Arenas are at best a supplement to an areas development plan.
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Well of course; an arena itself doesn't spur development; a development plan, such as the Rivers District Master Plan, does; arenas would be part of that plan, much in the same way a convention centre, a hotel, residential towers, etc. are. The East Village was planned this way, and I'd say it's made a pretty significant difference on that end of downtown in terms of bringing investment and life into the area.