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A downtown event centre on a large downtown site
Bring people back downtown with events, built with willing partners and open books.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
The problem
What residents describe today.
A large downtown retail anchor is moving uptown. Small businesses nearby rely on the foot traffic it brings.
An earlier downtown arena plan did not go ahead. Residents want any new plan done openly.
Evidence
Residents and downtown businesses raise the loss of foot traffic. The facts about the downtown sites and earlier plans still need to be confirmed from public records before any assessment.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- Assess a mid-size event centre on a large downtown site already built for crowds: games, concerts, trade shows and graduations.
- Willing partners only. No forced purchases.
- An independent business case published before any commitment.
- Every dollar, contract and change shown on a public ledger.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- Whether an event centre is needed at all, which site owners are willing, who would fund and operate it, and how the public sees the numbers.
- Next step to test it
- An independent business case, published, before any commitment. Willing partners only.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
Video
Video in preparation
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Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
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