Power play : professional hockey and the politics of urban development / Jay Scherer, David Mills, & Linda Sloan McCulloch.

ISBN:

9781772124941

9781772124958

9781772124965

Title:

Power play : professional hockey and the politics of urban development / Jay Scherer, David Mills, & Linda Sloan McCulloch.

Author:

Scherer, Jay, 1975- author.

Personal Author:

Scherer, Jay, 1975- author.

Edition:

First electronic edition, 2019.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contents:

Boosting Edmonton: Hockey and the Promotion of the City, 1894-1977 -- The Blue Line and the Bottom Line: Peter Pocklington, the EIGLP, and the Business of Hockey in Edmonton, 1977-2005 -- Preparing the Political Terrain -- Making the Team -- Power Plays -- Shut Out -- Show Me the Money -- End Game? -- The Beat Goes On -- Head Games -- Lobbying the Province, Slamming Northlands -- The Art of the Deal? -- Epilogue: The Oilers Get a New Arena, So the Flames Want One, Too.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Arenas -- Alberta -- Edmonton -- Finance.

Arenas -- Economic aspects -- Alberta -- Edmonton.

City planning -- Alberta -- Edmonton.

Public-private sector cooperation -- Alberta -- Edmonton.

Salles omnisports -- Alberta -- Edmonton -- Finances.

Salles omnisports -- Aspect économique -- Alberta -- Edmonton.

Urbanisme -- Alberta -- Edmonton.

Partenariat public-privé -- Alberta -- Edmonton.

City planning

Public-private sector cooperation

Geographic Term:

Alberta -- Edmonton

Added Author:

Mills, David, 1952-

McCulloch, Linda Sloan, 1960-

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2290039

Publication Date:

2019

Publication Information:

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada :

The University of Alberta Press,

2019.

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Summary

When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag of more than $600 million. The arena deal, they argue, established a costly public financing precedent that people across North America should watch closely, as many cities consider building sports facilities for professional teams or international competitions. Their analysis brings clarity and nuance to a case shrouded in secrecy and understood by few besides political and business insiders. Power Play tells a dramatic story about clashing priorities where sports, money, and municipal power meet. Foreword by Richard Gruneau.