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Originally Posted by Djeffery
Do you have hockey tournamant aged kids? Parents of hockey players that I'm friends with are gone it seems like every other weekend. You don't need lots of spectator room, these 4 plexes usually have a restaurant or 2 in the common space in the middle of the rinks where the parents hang out while their kids are playing. Every weekend there will be hundreds of families coming to a tournament in that rink, with a large number of them grabbing 2 or 3 nights in a hotel and the spending that entails. A stadium isn't going to draw anywhere near as many out of towners as the 4 plex rink will.
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You are saying that a 4-plex arena in a suburban area oriented toward schoolkids and beer leagues will draw more out of town people and generate more hotel stays than a downtown stadium for concerts and pro sports that has maybe 20x the max occupancy?
The 4-plex was sold mostly as infrastructure for physical activity, kind of like a school gym or soccer field except way more expensive per user. A lot of people in Halifax are hockey-crazed and want to play it but outdoor rinks are hit or miss so they demand that the government provide year-round ice surfaces as a human right. The local media used to run stories about the crisis and how people would have to wait on lists or drive across town for ice time.
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