Quote (Bruin @ Jan 18 2016 08:50pm)
All of it is true, however no one who argues about the calgaryNEXT project talks about how if a city of 1.1+ million people want a shiny new toy, they have to pay for it.
At the end of the day, there's no way that a hockey club is going to front nearly a billion dollars for an arena, they'll move to another city where there is a mayor that will.
Nenshi should just ask the provincial NDPs to help pay. They like writing cheques and raising taxes.
No, it does need a partnership, but their asking offer was 200m from the Flames, and 1Bil + whatever other costs, from tax payers? That's laughable.
Edmonton got their blank cheque from a PC government, not NDP, and only because Katz bought Redford, our most corrupt Premier in history, outright, with a blank campaign cheque:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/katz-groups-430000-bulk-donation-to-redfords-tories-cleared-by-elections-alberta/article11660624/We're better than Edmonton, Nenshi is used to Billionaires trying to push him around, and it's going to take a while. They are going to get public money to fund it, and that's in a large part because of the field house and public elements of the building imo, but will take a lot of revising. Just knock down the Corral or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJt4bcnXs