Comments on: New Concept for Edmonton Arena in The Quarters Downtown

By: Grimreaper12

Grimreaper12 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:01:00 +0000

edmonton shows they are wieners, calgary is a much better city and you dont see them complaining, all edmonton has going for it is a very high murder rate

By: SlaughterMeister

SlaughterMeister — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:48:54 +0000

I really, really, really hope they build this thing so it has proper acoustics for concerts. Rexall is a terrible concert venue, the sound echoes and sounds like crap. Shaw is much better.

By: Jack D Strangmann

Jack D Strangmann — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:14:09 +0000

Mr Katz is a very smart cookie, get the City to pay for the arena, so he can use it, and make a killing on it. He will finance the surrounding retail and other devellopment; an make a killing on that too. that will make it a double whammy.
In the meantime the taxpayers on the hook for a cool four hundred million, for what? To see the Oilers play; I mean loose?
Most people I know can’t even affort to watch the oilers play in the Rexall.

I have a better idea:
Let mr Katz build the arena, and make his millionair hockey players share holders.

By: alfonso papaianni

alfonso papaianni — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:14:51 +0000

I think it will great to have an arena in downtown Edmonton . BUT it should be something the world has never seen before . So people don,t only come see hockey at the arena but come to the ARENA .

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By: Antony Ta

Antony Ta — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:59:49 +0000

How do you suppose they will keep snow from accumulating on the roof since the design is an inverted oval? The solar paneling and the precipice of the oval cut off may need some sort of snow removal strategy in such a design.

Also, what kind of techniques do they intend to use in order to maximize the heat retained by the glass and stone design? It would be interesting also to know how the promenade connects to the parking lot (which is behind near the two towers? I can’t really tell).

By: Buce Winter

Buce Winter — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:11:31 +0000

Let’s build it smart. Engage the community, all of us. Researchers at the UofA, communicators, all of them, eh us, big and small business.

Imagine building and commercializing energy, environmental, and financial systems that don’t exist.

The Quarters has the potential to turn a community subsidy into a community asset that pays dividends forever.

Can we be that smart?

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:55:56 +0000

It’s an old building with lots of history. I quite like it. What it lacks are some of the modern amenities found in other rinks throughout the league, and seating/boxes/other opportunities for increased revenue. Oilers games fairly consistently sellout, and I’m sure they would continue to do so even with another 2000 tickets or so.

If you look at the Related Posts above, you’ll see that this has been going on for quite some time.

By: Alain Saffel

Alain Saffel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:53:33 +0000

I heard about that on the radio this morning. Kind of a cool idea. Edmonton could use more great architecture.

I agree with you that the arena shouldn’t be entirely publicly funded.

Still being relatively new to Edmonton, I wonder what’s wrong with the old arena? Is it just that it’s lacking some seating and private boxes?

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:46:50 +0000

Good question, kinda hard to tell from what we have so far. My guess would be covered.

By: Luke Moritz

Luke Moritz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:18:24 +0000

My only question is if the promenade/shopping/walk-way areas are uncovered and exposed to the elements it might make a large portion less useable in Edmonton winters.

I think the design is very interesting though.