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On Monday, Calgary’s City Council will look at a proposed tentative agreement with the Calgary Flames to construct a brand-new hockey arena (or “event centre,” in City Hall’s parlance). This represents the most significant development in a saga that has dragged on for well over a decade.
Here’s a trip down memory lane to showcase how we got to this point in the arena negotiations.
As the 2004-05 lockout began to wind down, the Flames turned their focus to the future. The club began preliminary work on a new arena in the spring of 2005 – primarily stakeholder discussions and trying to turn their notions for what they needed in a new building into something concrete.