City of Calgary to look for partners for new arena besides Calgary Flames

The city of Calgary will be pursuing other means of getting a new events centre built that could include the Flames owners.or not.

According to Calgary's mayor Jyoti Gondek, there are reportedly multiple interested parties that would like to see the project continue.

"Now is the time to look very holistically at the district itself, rather than trying to build a district around a single project," she said.

"I would like to make sure that Calgarians understand that building an event centre is still a strategic direction of [city] council," Gondek said.

"There are still many interested parties that want to see this move forward."
Although many people want the arena to happen, and there is almost unanimous desire among the council to complete it, it seems it may not be so simple. Andre Chabot chipped in from this standpoint.

"This is something that the City of Calgary has been pursuing for over 15 years, and the idea that we're just going to snap our fingers and find a new partner, I think, is a very utopian sort of opinion," Chabot said.

"It's not going to happen. Not a partner of this magnitude."

Gondek is still being optimistic and realizes that many factors contributed to the deal being terminated, but now it can be reimagined.

"It's time to sit down and understand how new operating models could potentially work in everyone's best interest, including the public that the city council serves."

«Council is set to revisit the matter next Tuesday, when it will work to determine how the project will go ahead,» Gondek said.

cbc.ca

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