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Originally Posted by EdmTrekker
Ken, I am going to bust a gut with this one: "interesting assumption...i'm curious as to why you would make it before you've even really started your research?". I hope you have something in a glass, neat and are swirling it around and around.
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well it did start with "I'm working on a project that may involve a similar style of partnership to induce a private investor to contribute to an entertainment district, and obviously Edmonton is a perfect case study for my client before they sit down with the city in question." and then moving on to "the city selling other sites in the area off-market" before being informed that wasn't the case and then assuming that three very sophisticated vendors and every other developer/speculator in the country and their brokers knew nothing about edmonton's interest in securing a new downtown arena.
as i said, i'm just curious as to why.
i'm also curious about who the mystery client is that - with his assistance - is looking at being induced with the same kind of sweetheart deal he assumes took place here to the city's detriment with some other city.
as for your hope, sometimes it's neat but more often it's on the rocks.
and sometimes there's something in a glass while other times it's worthwhile asking just for the sake of finding out what the answers are going to be.