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Originally Posted by shermanator
The Wild wanted to play at Spruce Meadows. Spruce Meadows wanted a significant fee to rent the stadium; I've heard it was 7 figures annually.
I speculate that Spruce Meadows didn't want an additional tenant and asked for a fee they knew the Wild couldn't afford. They already struggle to maintain that pitch outside of the big equestrian events.
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That makes more sense.
This city really needs to figure out how we improve on McMahon stadium.
Don't need anything too crazy - a 30k seat stadium that could host Football / Soccer and be similar to BMO field / Mosaic Stadium would be perfect for this city.
What would that cost in 2024...maybe $350M. (Mosaic: $278M in 2014, BMO: $200M including initial build and 2016 expansion).
Honestly wish it was still included as part of the overall arena discussion because I think that's the only way it would have happened.
Spend $1.5M instead of the $1.2M we are spending on the Arena and probably could have gotten both, instead of all the provincial/city funding going to the arena which really the Flames should have paid a bigger share of.