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Originally Posted by bomberjet
My season tickets are in the upper deck and like I said the there's nothing they can do about the narrow concourses. The corner spaces and the front atrium are nice spots to get out of the concourse. But ya, there's not much else to be done because that's just the way the rink is.
Like anything in this town. It will be extremely difficult to build a rink that competes with either of the rinks in Alberta. Look how hard it was for Calgary to get it done. Never mind poor old Winnipeg. I'd love it but we need another owner with deep pockets to do it IMO. By the time it get's to this. Thomson will be dead. Chipman will be pretty old. Who's the person with the money to do it?
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The lower bowl concourse is orders of magnitude worse at intermission than the upper concourse - IMO.
Only expansion left to do at the Arena is sky boxes or suites at or near the same level as the organist box they put in - or possibly hung off the existing roof structure.
Yes the current seats are cramped - but the site lines are fantastic -basically everywhere - there isn't a bad seat in the house.
Winnipeg is never going to build a new arena that costs close to 10-figures. You guys are all dreaming. But this city can throw a lot of lipstick on the current venue - and that's fine. We have an NHL arena that is basically pennies on the dollar compared to these new venues.
I get that sometimes you need to spend money to make money, but spending a billion dollars to hopefully earn a few extra million in revenue a year isn't an investment that is going to pay off.
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