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Originally Posted by fotze2
The roof is 100 billion percent a problem. I went to school with and lived with the person on the planet who is the most familiar with with structural limitations of the saddledome roof. Could give 3 craps about the politics and financials but the roof absolutely limits what shows come to town and the speaker setups of the ones that do. Nenshi made up some crap years ago about this not being the case and then immediately stopped that rhetoric a few weeks later when he was likely told behind the scenes he was totally wrong.
Not trusting "the science" happens to all politicians unfortunately.
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I'm pretty sure Nenshi said that the Dome being old was overblown in how many acts were skipping our city:
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"Is it worth spending limited tax dollars so that Lady Gaga may or may not come, and few can afford a ticket? I don't see it," Mr. Nenshi wrote. "I called the biggest concert promoter in Canada and they said 1-2 concerts a year skip Calgary. Is that worth half-a-billion?"
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...rticle8146553/
10 years later and City Council did in fact, think it was worth spending (more) than half a billion.