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Though their rink only has a capacity of ~2300, which puts it on the smaller size in the league from what i can tell. |
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anyone know if the Market Mall project is still a go ? i remember a 2017 springtime start date
looks like College quarter hotel is capped out as well. |
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On your second point, I didn't say Saskatoon can't support both the Blades & the Rush. I was responding to another poster who talked about an AHL team and I said Saskatoon, at this point, couldn't support all three teams...in that scenario, I believe the Blades would be the odd man out. Thanks for the spirited discussion! :cheers: |
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It's too bad, really. I know a lot of people that are looking for work right now. |
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But I've heard from a few people (though the Blades will deny it) that the organization is very much for sale. I've heard other people mention that they Rush may be interested in buying the team, but the Priestners and Bruce Urban are business rivals in Edmonton. Hence why you've never seen any real cross-promotions between the two clubs even though they share the same arena. But as for the Sasktel Centre, we're rapidly approaching the point where I think we're going to start missing concerts because of the aging facility. The city will have to decide whether they build new or renovate. It will be interesting to see what effect the North Bridge will have on travel times to and from the Sasktel Centre. I've begun taking Marquis all the way to Arthur Rose Drive and down Warman road and it's way quicker than any other route during Rush games. I should say that I am disappoint so far with the City of Saskatoon that there are so few "park and ride" options to get to and from Rush games. I'd park at Preston Crossing (or other malls) and take a "Lacrosse Express" to the Sasktel Centre for a couple of bucks. They do it in Regina for Rider games. Works pretty well. Why not here? Promote your bus service. |
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because people here prefer to drive themselves everywhere. im guilty of it myself, not intentionally but it just happens. 6 of us go to the rush game or some pub/place to eat, we all drive in seperate cars, depending on the friend, ill pick them up or vise versa, but even some of my friends/acquaintances, its still " ill meet you there" type talk. speaking for sasktel centre-- if we used the school busses that we used for garth brooks last summer, id utilize that also. or implement some park and ride system. people here are just lazy altogether ( not pointing at you folks ). no one wants to walk/ride bikes/transit except a tiny fraction because its too hard or far:koko: our city was and will forever be built on driving cars, its not changing anytime soon:shrug: |
It will be interesting to see how opening of Commuter Parkway bridge at Marquis Dr will affect ingress/egress to SaskTel Centre. The fact that people will still have to drive through traffic-light intersections at Warman Rd & still have to cross the same busy intersection at highway 11 plus have to enter parking from Marquis Dr won't really make things much better though.
Too bad the city can't rub a couple brain cells together & think of having a dedicated bus lane that could enter SaskTel Centre direct right off Yellowhead highway and have entrance back on Idylwyld for buses only. The city has larger articulated buses with higher capacity that could work great for this very reason. Bus system could still work..barring fiasco like Eagle's concert few years back where people were literally freezing waiting for City transit buses that weren't operating. https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1651/2...a6f07efa_o.png |
One can use a simple online amortization table to crunch numbers on this. In order to pay for itself with 500,000 per year attendance to major events, a $200 million arena would need to add a $24 facility fee to every event (including Blades games). This assumes a 30 year amortization at 4%. That is not sustainable. You would therefor need government and municipal grants to bring that down to about $5/ticket. The Riders are charging $12 to pay for Mosaic.
Based on the Province's precedent formula they would contribute 30% or $60 million, but only if their finances turn around (which will take at least 4 years). The other issue is that $200 million will get you an arena that is smaller than SaskTel few luxuries. |
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i wonder why they cancelled it? arent we trying to "infill" better? was the previous post a while back " too toronto for saskatoon" the reason why |
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Ohhh jeez ya I should have known lol. The property manager I spoke to sounded rather annoyed that I was asking about it. She basically told me to go fly a kite. Who knows, private owners and devs have no obligation to talk about it, so maybe they're just keeping the information private for now. I'm gonna cross my fingers and still hope for the best. |
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I heard an interesting rumour that the two new build Brown's Social Houses have pulled out both building supplies and new equipment from these two locations and a notice offering a sub-lease posted. Anyone got anything on that situation?
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Aren't they franchises, maybe its just a local thing because of the economy, is this happening in other cities.
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