The team and city just signed the prototype "small town" afraid they're going to leave arena deal... Murray Edwards business extraordinaire runs CNRL in the Canadian oil patch, that lives off copying "what works" and is "cost effective"... And finally, the guy is the classic accounting CEO, where a low cost base trumps innovation.
When you add it up, the team is getting a value engineered "state of the art", "world class" arena like everyone else, not a leading edge, could fail design like the inverted bowl.
$40m up front on an $800m spend gets you full control in this scenario.
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