Earlier this week, Calgary City Council voted to reveal details of their side of the arena negotiations with the Calgary Flames. The Flames’ side of things are reportedly covered by a confidentiality agreement, but sources have seemingly leaked quite a bit of the nuts and bolts to the Calgary Herald‘s city hall columnist Don Braid.
Reportedly – and grain of salt on this, obviously – the Flames desired the City to pay for 52% of the $550 million needed to build the new barn. That would mean that the taxpayers would shell out $286 million for the building, with the Flames paying the remaining $264 million.