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06-19-2013
Bruce Dowbiggin Tweets
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bruce dowbiggin (@dowbboy)
2013-06-19 3:54 PM
If NHL final ends by this weekend expect Flames to announce arena plans shortly after. Not waiting for mayor's election. Location still TBF.
bruce dowbiggin (@dowbboy)
2013-06-19 3:56 PM
Could be East Village or area on west Bow Trail. Box holders have been told they'll have first dibs on new locations.
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This is the point where we all started to discuss the West Village as the location with a football stadium component.
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01-30-2014
Herald article regarding leaked Populous rendering
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“We’ve been working for years on this,’’ said King. “So we’re closer to some of the decisions of what we want. There’s a process of what do you want to build, then there’s a process of how do you build it, when do you build and where do you build it.
“We are not ready for that. At some point we will be. Sooner than later, I think. But I don’t want a death watch ... Is it next week or next month? When?
“We have exciting, unbelievably ambitious desires with this project that we hope come to fruition. We still have some hurdles to
“So the speculation has always existed. We’re working on it. We’ve been working on it a long time. And when we’re ready to unleash it on the world, we will.’’
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10-24-2014
Qwerty posts a discussion he/she had with Ken King at a Top Shelf Experience dinner
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- They have the location decided. He could not disclose the location or state whether the Stampede will be involved.
- The project is going to be a billion dollar project.
- The new 'plan' is to release the information in the next 2 months (hoped before the new year).
- It is 'more then an area'. He is confident no one will be disappointed with it.
- You can expect the process to take 1 year for permits, 3 year construction. So as we already know it will be 5 years to completion.
- He stated there is no opposition to what is going to happen to the old arena as it will be 40+ yrs old come completion. We took this to mean it will be demolished which makes the most sense.
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11-24-2014
STH Reception recap by Badgers Nose
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- Tuesday's Herald will have an article about the new area, nothing official but it might have some new info.
- KK hinted the new stadium would have a dome to keep Stamp fans warm.
- They want it 'Downtown' as opposed to saying it 'will be' downtown.
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02-03-2015
STH Reception recap by surfer guy
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Last week I was in attendance to a STH reception and Ken King said they were going to the city in February. Take it for what it is worth.
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03-05-2015
Recap of Ken King on 95.9 by JBR
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Downtown location
Bigger than an arena project
Mayor will see it first. Hinted this is imminent
Less than a few weeks away from making it pubic
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03-05-2015
Herald Article featuring yet another promise of a couple of weeks
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...downtown-arena
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“Before any of your listeners have conniptions, when you see our project, people are just going to love it. And we’re not going to sneak in here and steal money from the city,” King told the radio hosts.
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City councillors have pre-emptively narrowed his options further.
The 15 members are almost uniformly#opposed to redirecting scarce infrastructure dollars at a professional sports#facility, though other options may be on the table.
“The best option perhaps is just going to be making land available, but no dollars. Because there are no dollars,” said Coun. Ward Sutherland, vice-chair of council’s priorities and finance committee.
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March 2015
Herald article with some of the Flames visions for the unannounced project
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...r-sports-house
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King shared his plans with Nenshi in mid-March, then the mayor relayed it to council in a closed-door session Monday evening, multiple sources have confirmed. But there’s still no formal proposal submitted to council, and it’s unclear when King will finally reveal the ambitious concept to the public, though he did say a month ago the release was a “couple of weeks” away.
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04-08-2015
STH Reception recap by get bak
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At the Fan Forum on Monday, King didn't say much about the arena project, and nothing new about it. He did repeat what he has said before that there won't be big arguments over public money.
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04-25-2015
http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audiopl...pid=2665082483
Ken King acknowledges West Village and says they will wait til the playoffs and provincial election are over until they announce anything
08-19-2015
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