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"The old HCC is already taken care of.  Northland has right of first refusal and already has plans for the event that a new arena is built, and the old one is no longer needed.  Those plans involve a twin tower on the opposite corner of the lot and a Rockerfeller Center type thing in between.  I'm also not seeing how a new arena would result in a lack of return on the investment.  Just the pure influx of people downtown for the events would be a bonus.  The difference in numbers of people downtown from the Whalers days to the Wolf Pack days is night and day.  People actually spent money downtown when the Whalers played, the Wolf Pack... good luck.  The difference between 16k+ and 5k is, well 11k people in town 40 nights or so a year.  Not sure how that kind of influx of people isn't a good investment downtown.  National exposure due to a pro-sports franchise, an influx of dollars due to events, an opening of prime real estate for more residential, I'm not seeing the problem.  jcrc, I love you buddy, but I have no idea what your problem with a new arena is, especially being a business owner downtown.  Ask the owner of Chuck's Steak House the difference in business from the Whalers days to the Wolf Packs days, he'll tell you, that is after you go out of town to find him since his business couldn't exist downtown anymore after that... "
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