We don't know. But I suspect it will end up north of $100 million. expanding things underground costs big $. The already committed for the greenline, no. Brand new money, also likely no but messy. A committment to supply funding over and above what they may have considered otherwise, maybe?
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Edmonton actually has around 300,000 less people, much more than 60. You're thinking metropolitan area… but this is entirely a municipal matter. Alberta has no metropolitan areas that receive joint funding. Our metropolitan regional councils are funded by the constituent municipalities.
I hear this often from Edmonton posters but I’ve never seen the evidence to support it.
I agree with your points here UW - I hope they complete Stampede Trail and the Plaza as you describe.
The dollar amounts are roughly proportional. The myth imo comes from Edmonton deciding not to borrow money in the 80s to keep building. They went 30 years between building rec centres. They didn’t build a concert hall in their equivalent to Arts Commons so they built it later. They spent around the same $ amount on the LRT from the 70s to the mid 90s but got so much less. The province taking over Deerfoot was roughly proportionate in capital spend to the province building the SW Anthony Henday.
Technically Edmonton is 92k less, but it’s a small margin in the grand scheme of things. About 7% difference.
That could be cool, but I would worry they would go full Stampitecture with the rest. Little Caesars in Detroit looks cool inside, but I would hate to see that facade here.
Little Caesars doesn't use just brick on the exterior. That arena has a mix of different facade types and colours to help mask the massing. Speaking of Little Caesars, I measured and that arena and it's parkade would fit in the new expanded footprint of this new agreement (excluding the plaza between the parkade and arena)