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Originally Posted by transplant99
Im not including event staff. Nor is IANKK.
Again, its not a selling point for the arena that i'm making.
I think many (even "hard core") fans, would be surprised at how many full time jobs are involved with any high level sports team, but in particular CSEC who have 5 different entities under their banner.
Just offering information whilst not succumbing to the fury of the masses.
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I realize it’s not the point you are making but IANKK is making the claim of thousands of jobs.
If you add it all up, CSEC is likely employing hundreds of people. And that is a good thing. But to tie back to the arena deal, many of those jobs are unrelated. Stamps are very separate. Who knows what the Wranglers long term future is, that team has moved constantly. And Roughnecks and Hitmen don’t need this kind of stadium.
An MLB team I have done some work with has 180 FTE’s. The owner who has other business interests calls it a small business. I’d imagine the Flames come in less than half of that.
But to your point, very few people are making the jobs argument here and would concede from a jobs perspective, it’s a poor ROI. If the city offered to build head offices for corporations, you would do much better.
But the Flames offer a ton of intangible benefits which IMO is nearly the entirety of the rationale.