Downtown booster group starts campaign to complete Edmonton arena deal
BY GORDON KENT, EDMONTON JOURNAL MAY 6, 2013 2:07 PM
EDMONTON - A downtown booster group started an arena counteroffensive Monday by urging the city, the province and Oilers owner Daryl Katz to find a way to get the project built.
“Today we launch a coalition of support to something that’s too often diminished to just an arena for millionaire hockey players. It is much more than that,” said Simon O’Byrne, spokesman for the Downtown Vibrancy Coalition.
There’s $3-billion worth of development waiting on arena approval, bringing shops, condos, restaurants, an upgraded Jasper Avenue and other improvements to Edmonton’s core, he told 125 people at the group’s kickoff event, said O’Byrne, who is also vice-president and practice leader for urban planning at Edmonton-based Stantec.
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