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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
One last thing... There a lot of shady backroom hand shaking that led to the construction of Quebec's Videotron Centre but, it's still not comparable to the situation in Edmonton where a team pursued and got a sweetheart deal from the city.
I've accepted Edmontonians are fine with this deal. There have and will be much worst deals made too. I'll try hard to accept Edmonton's forumers flat out denial that this is costing the city regardless of the uptick in tax revenues from these blocks.
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I still don't understand why everyone still thinks Edmonton got screwed worse than Québec City. We constantly see Edmonton bashing and nothing against the Québec situation.
In Edmonton, about what, half came from Government sources? Ya, it's a little much, but the City got a huge privately funded development and downtown revitalization out of it.
Québec City? Government funded the entire project for a group that can't even secure an NHL franchise. A group that only pay rent based on their revenues. Worse of all, the arena was basically built in a suburban location with no associated development.