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Old 09-04-2025, 04:05 AM   #1014
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Originally Posted by Muta View Post
Some ambitious developer should do this on top of a parkade downtown, or even smaller indoor-sized or futsal courts (depending on available space) on a tower. There's no soccer fields anywhere downtown - pair it up with a sports store, media centre and a restaurant, and bam - soccer lives downtown now. Corporate Calgary can have fun with it during the day, and the community/leagues can have fun with it at night.

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With the lack of pitches downtown and the Beltline, I've felt that converting one or two of the surface parking lots along 10th Ave into a Five-a-Side centre like Power Leagues in the UK would be a much better use of the land. The photo below is a Power Leagues centre in Leeds.

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