Unfortunately, the " Big Owe" situation is a choice between terrible options. Either spend $870 million on a new roof for a building that needs major renovations on top of that in order to be of much use for anything, or spend up to $2 billion to demolish the thing (although a lot of people rightly question why that figure seems ridiculously high).
I think the $2B figure is to demo and then rebuild something....so you'd spending an additional $1.2B, when you already have a soccer and football stadium that are suitable for its needs....
Pretty sure they have committed to the football layout, it will now be unsuitable for baseball permanently. It's a cool looking stadium, but they would have been better to just demolish it.
The arena's still only 1/3 it's full height btw. Still got the upper seating bowl above the upper concourse, and the press level/roof above that.
Would be cool to see the Scotiabank logo lit up Flames Red instead of the bank red.
When you talk about "entertainment districts", and how replacing one arena with a better arena (same number of patrons) in the same area CAN actually create a major difference in a neighborhood, by simply the street design and bringing the arena to the street....this picture does all the talking. We have come a loooooooooong way in how these are built, thank god.