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Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn
Maybe I'm overestimating how much less it is to build a 10,000 or so arena is compared to an NHL scale 16,000+ arena, but I'm sure it would be quite a lot less.
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If you listen to Ottawa, it's apparently $100 million more to go from 6000 to 8000 seats lol. Back when London built what is now Canada Life Place, it was something like $40 million 25 years ago for the 9000 seats we got. The question was asked about making it larger and they said something along the lines of 50% more seats was more than double the cost. Something I think many wished today they had decided to do. As it was, the London Knights already thought 9000 was way too many seats (coming from their tiny 5000 seat arena out in the sticks) although I think they too in hindsight wish they had that 50% more.