The good news is the really boring procedural parts of negotiating the new arena deal are done. The bad news is we still have a long, long time before the arena opens.
We pestered several bigwigs at City Hall on Tuesday and got a few answers to the most pressing arena question we have left: when is the arena going to be ready?
Event Centre Assessment Committee chair Jeff Davison noted that the legal teams need to negotiate “definitive agreements” by Nov. 30 and then public engagement on things like arena design, accessibility and programming will begin.