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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
Based on what? Is there a clause that Ottawa and Edmonton could chip in even more if the Flames came on board? Because that's the only possibility I can see.
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The bid includes about 200-250 million for an arena (depending on how much fieldhouse is) and no spot to house curling. The flames originally offered a combination of 275 million in the form of ticket taxes and cash to build an arena required a 225 million CRL and were missing about 50 million in other costs.
So if you squint a bit and assume the flames are still in for 275 and the city comments about not knowing what to do with a 5k arena are true and that in the First Olympic study they planned to use the field house for curling and you can see that for somewhere im the 50milliom neighbourhood you could upgrade to a flames arena. The agreement in principle will be announce a week or two out before the plebiscite to gin up support.