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Originally Posted by Scornfire
No you don't, you will be granted the option to pay (top dollar) to temporarily access the arena
YOU get sweet #### all
Unless the city gets revenue from concerts or at the VERY least from parking this is nothing but corporate welfare
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Sweet #### all? As a taxpayer I get:
a revitalized lower east village (desperately needed)
a new event centre (desperately needed), catching us up with every other city in NA
more events, concerts, etc here every year (very welcome)
a renewed 35 year contract with the team, to stay here
People talk like the only thing that will happen in the building is Flames games. But the event centre, and the surrounding developed area, will be here the other 250 days a year also, and I am willing to bet that every single (local) person that has said on here that they will never step into it, will have attended something there, within a year or two of it being built (unless they stay away, purely out of spite).
People are very welcome to say that they don't want to spend a nickel going to a game - and that's fine, you do you. You are free to not like the deal, but the crap that gets made up in here is pretty ridiculous.