{"id":7083,"date":"2019-07-26T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hi8lvmqnx7.wpdns.site\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:53:44","slug":"sport-calgary-supports-new-event-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/sport-calgary-supports-new-event-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport Calgary Supports New Event Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>CALGARY, Alberta<\/em> \u2014 Sport Calgary has voiced its strong support for the construction of a new public sports and entertainment event centre, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.calgary.ca\/city-of-calgary-calgary-sports-and-entertainment-and-calgary-stampede-agree-to-create-new-event-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">as jointly announced on July 22, 2019<\/a> by the City of Calgary, Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation (CSEC) and Calgary Stampede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal as announced would provide $75 million of support to amateur sport from CSEC, in addition to all they and their ownership group already do in our community through the <a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryflamesfoundation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Calgary Flames Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CSEC was recognized by Sport Calgary as the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/celebration-of-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018 winners of the Ron Southern Business and Sport Award<\/a>, recognizing their tireless support of health and wellness, amateur and grassroots sports, and education initiatives. Since 2000, over $36 million has been invested back into southern Alberta communities by the Calgary Flames Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above all, a new public sports and entertainment event centre would deliver public benefit for public dollars, and accelerate the redevelopment of East Victoria Park, in alignment with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgarymlc.ca\/riversdistrictmasterplan#rivers-district-intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Rivers District Master Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter 14 months of review, analysis and consultation by the City\u2019s Event Centre Assessment Committee, Sport Calgary encourages Council to vote in favour of this project, and all the substantial benefits it will deliver to local sport,\u201d said Murray Sigler, Sport Calgary CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Sport Calgary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sport Calgary is a volunteer non-profit society, representing over 200 sport organizations in Calgary as a Civic Partner. As an advocate of sport, we strive to assist, support and influence the growth of sport in Calgary by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Playing a lead role in the implementation of the Calgary Sport for Life Policy, and ensuring it continues to create a vision for sport in Calgary from introductory to high performance levels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continually identifying and assessing the needs of the sport community and facility stakeholders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Encouraging development and enhancement of appropriate facilities and the efficient utilization of current facilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fostering collaboration within the sport community and coordination of resources among stakeholders to develop and enhance facilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increasing the profile of sport in Calgary, and advocating the values and benefits of sport<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facilitating education and training opportunities for athletes, coaches, officials, administrators, parents and volunteers\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acting as a resource for sport organizations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Encouraging the hosting of sport events and sport tourism in Calgary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport Calgary has voiced its strong support for the construction of a new public sports and entertainment event centre, as jointly announced on July 22, 2019 by the City of Calgary, Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation (CSEC) and Calgary Stampede.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}