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Old Posted Nov 29, 2018, 6:11 PM
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Originally Posted by wave46 View Post
The question is: What do you do with it? You can hand it to the government to run (see: the Big O), but if there's no profitable reason to keep the building, it's effectively an empty, money-losing monument.

Ottawa doesn't need two NHL-sized arenas. If it was Toronto, sure, an alternative venue would be great.
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And there is also an arena with 10,000 capacity in the heart of the city at Lansdowne that competes for events.

There is also a 4-5,000 capacity venue currently under construction in Gatineau. Though I don't think that will compete much with the Ottawa venues in terms of events.
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