It has been about 10 years since the City of Edmonton seriously began studying the concept of funding the construction of a downtown arena, and 6 years since City Council voted to approve a financial deal with the Edmonton Oilers and its billionaire owner, Daryl Katz, to construct a new arena.
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In This Corner: Stuff Still Happens, week 36: Edmonton’s shiny new toy is unwrapped.
November of 2014 marked the 40th anniversary of the opening of the old Northlands Coliseum, later renamed Skyreach Centre, later renamed Rexall Place, now back to Northlands Coliseum. As I wrote in my blog, I was just a rube from the sticks (the sticks being Edmonton), and I was in awe of the “magnificient” new […]
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