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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
The usual crowd scoffed at that deal too at the time, but you’d be hard pressed to talk to anyone in Edmonton that regrets that deal now. Ditched their dumpy awful barn for a great new building that has completely revitalized their downtown and secured the future of their hockey team for decades. Most reasonable people will feel the same about this in time, certainly better than being stuck with a crumbling half century old building in an underdeveloped part of downtown and no NHL team all in the name of “sticking it to billionaires” or some such nonsense.
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That’s because most sensible have the ability to get over something, especially years and years after the fact. Not sure that’s a bold prediction or anything.
There are people that still complain about the library. There are people that still complain about public art. Hell, there are probably people who still conplain about the peace bridge. The one thing in common? They all use those things as examples of spending they hate as justification for why the city should spend on something they love. Namely: an arena.
So, sure, reasonable people are going to accept reality and get over it once the arena is built. Why wouldn’t they? Doesn’t mean fawning over this deal now is a reasonable position to take.