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Originally Posted by IamNotKenKing
Thanks for calling me (usually) pretty fair. I try to be.
I think wording is important, though, as one can easily say "double the price of the last arena deal", as one of my partners did this morning having only seen a headline, and I called him out on that.
Speaking frankly, I have no idea how other municipalities spend their money (and kinda don't care) but someone did comment on the Titans receiving $1.2B in Public Financing earlier today. That only gets you 9 home games...
Is that worse?
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...blic-financing
According to Stephenson and Wegner, financing for the project includes the largest public subsidy for a stadium in United States history of at least $1.26 billion. |
Fair enough. As for the Titans, that deal also sucks, but I see it as being in the same kind of category. Of course a worse way to spend that kind of money is to spend more of it on the same kind of thing, but I don’t know if it’s in the spirit of what I’m thinking. I’m just genuinely curious what these “worse ways” Calgary could reasonably spend this money are.
We know there are better ways, many of which have been listed in the thread. But you’ve got around $1b to spend on a major project in Calgary… how much worse could it get?