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Flames Owners Open To Considering Alternative Plan To CalgaryNEXT Project

Calgary Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Flames and CFL Stampeders, has "acknowledged it's open to considering an alternative for its proposed hybrid arena-stadium-field house complex known as CalgaryNEXT," according to Annalise Klingbeil of the CALGARY HERALD. The substitute plan would "see an arena and event centre located on the Stampede grounds, a separate field house in the northwest" near the Univ. of Calgary and some renovation to McMahon Stadium. The initial C$890M CalgaryNEXT proposal unveiled last summer "spanned several blocks near the Bow River and envisioned replacing the aging Scotiabank Saddledome and McMahon Stadium with a new hockey arena, covered football stadium and multi-sport field house in the West Village." Sport Calgary CEO Murray Sigler "praised the Plan B as a step in the right direction and said he hopes it will be put through the same scrutiny as the initial proposal for a professional and amateur sports complex." Murray: "We're really pleased that there's now another plan on the table that can actually be looked at." CS&E President & CEO Ken King said that many of the extra costs "outlined in the report, such as the contamination clean-up, would come with the development of the West Village and would exist whether or not CalgaryNEXT goes ahead" (CALGARY HERALD, 6/15). In a letter to season-ticket holders received Monday, King said CS&E "accepted an offer from the City to examine a Plan B." Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said, "It was very, very clear that in the last report to council that the CalgaryNEXT proposal in West Village faces incredibly high, if not insurmountable, hurdles." Nenshi added that King's letter to seasons ticket holders "didn't oppose the city's assertions of the project cost" (CALGARY SUN, 6/15).

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