The president of the Calgary Flames says the team’s owners are dropping their plan for a new arena.
Ken King says they are no longer in talks with the city.
He says negotiations have been poor — and that the last meeting was at the end of July.
King won’t say what this means for the future of the team.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who is running for re-election this October, is expected to respond at 6 p.m. He has raised concerns about using taxpayer dollars to fund the new arena in the past.
He said earlier this week that his campaign wanted to see the new arena as part of the revitalized entertainment district near the current Saddledome.
The city had been talking with the Flames about a “Plan B” site in the community of Victoria Park, west of Fifth Street between 12th and 14th avenues S.E. Those negotiations came after the city rejected the team’s CalgaryNext proposal for the West Village.
