Whether the conditions were met or not... its a freakin bad look on a billionaire owner. It's a damn homeless organization that you're taking to court because they didn't fundraise on their own... and you benefitted from taking over their property.?
Katz is getting ripped on Social media right now and rightfully so.
Social media isn't the courts and we should stop pretending it is or is representative of views. As judged by responses already in this thread we see a balance of views here rather than the typical hive mind of social media.
People know I'm fervently against Arena/Stadia public fund supported builds, was staunchly against this Arena being built. But that doesn't dissuade me from noting the crux of the contention that Boyle street did not meet the conditions of the original agreement and as stated were instead relying on the 5M. That is counter to what the agreement was.
Further, I could say its even a bad look how many people wanted this project, where it is, and with the agreements (which commonly tend to not to come to fruition in these transactions) and are now complaining about the latest. Ironically more than a few people that used to post here were enraged that anybody would oppose any and all of the Arena agreements and would typically posit all the good that would come from that and that anybody that couldn't see that was "a clown". Well here we are. yet again with another of the agreements not having materialized as originally announced.
I've also long encouraged people to donate to already established charities rather than the Oilers foundation or 50/50 tickets and the like whereby only a fraction of the money gets to service where its needed.