gstommylee
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- Jan 31, 2012
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If you absolutely want to talk about Qc...lets do it.
In Quebec the brand new 19k seats arena was built in 3 years (2012-2015) for $370M, Canadian dollars.
Now, it's maybe not the same country nor the same amount, but it's still the same continent, same ''business market'' and the price shouldn't be 3x or almost 4x the other.
Quebec's arena was from ground up and done at the time were cost of material were also lower and probably labor cost could very well be a whole lot less compared to the cost of doing it in Seattle.
Key arena's redo is very very restricted due to the roofline being historic. Trying to take something with that restricted and turn it into a 800k square foot arena isn't going to be cheap to begin with. I knew way before OVG even come out with their plan that it was never going to be cheap to make it work at Key arena. Construction crew has to remove 500k of dirt in such a way that doesn't impact the surroundings day and night and that added to the cost as well.
Even Sodo arena's price would have gone up as well.