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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I don't understand the issue people have with this. The city can either make this deal now with some contribution from CSEC and keep the Calgary Flames in Calgary or they can pay for the whole thing in 3-5 years after the Flames have moved. It's not like there's a viable option to not build a new arena in the next few years.
The Saddledome structure is at the end of it's life and would be a money pit to fix just to keep it running with over $100MM needed in urgent repairs plus more ongoing. There is no other North American city sized 1.5-2.0 million people with an arena as outdated as Calgary. Build it and move on.
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Yeah, and you're not wrong. But the thing is while the city needs an arena, the Flames/CSEC also need an arena. So you would hope that the deal would be pretty even when you look it from that side of things. Obviously, given the outcome, the Flames walked away from the last deal and the city begged them to come back to the table.