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Originally Posted by GernB
Yesterday's Calgary Herald says $50 million in renovations for McMahon Stadium as part of the 2026 Winter Olympics bid.
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That doesn't sound good. Just to throw out a few inaccurate numbers off the top of my head to put things in perspective, the Ottawa stadium was about 100-120 million, Cohon said the Moncton stadium would be about 100 million to get it up to snuff IIRC. THF cost 145 million.
By that time McMahon will need a new scoreboard, artificial turf, 50 million won't do much. I hate when people around here use the term lipstick on a pig but I think
in this case with that amount of money that's what it will be.
Actually it's madness to spend that type of money on a field house and not include a proper football setup, maybe it's just blackmail by the city to put the Flames in their place.