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Posted by arielstory on January 31, 2009
The MTS Centre in downtown Winnipeg is humming.
Its breaking event records left right and centre and remains one of the busiest hockey arenas/entertainment complexes in Canada.
The facility is the third busiest in Canada, the MTS Centre announced last week. Attendance for non-sporting events alone hit over 385,000 in 2008.
Thats up from 355,000 tickets sold in 2007.
No doubt, MTS Centres private owners are making money hand-over-fist as they enjoy the successes of the building.
It makes you wonder: why did taxpayers have to fund the construction of the facility in the first place?
Taxpayers ponied up $40.5 million to help build the facility. They also paid to demolish the old Winnipeg Arena and are supplying the MTS Centre with a number of ongoing tax/lottery subsidies.
If the place is doing so well, maybe they should give us some of that money back.
Im glad the MTS Centre is as successful as it is. I enjoy going there. Ive taken in some great concerts and I like going to the odd Moose game.
But given how successful it is, isnt it now obvious now that this was purely a business venture that should have been bankrolled privately, not by taxpayers?
Hopefully we can learn from that.
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