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Originally Posted by GreatTallNorth2
It's crazy to think what Saskatoon is spending downtown on an arena and convention centre. That is some serious cash. Seems Saskatoon and Regina are much more ambitious than a lot of the Ontario cities that have greater populations. Maybe it is a combination of Ontario being so "Toronto-centric" and the smaller cities thinking they have to be less ambitious "because we are not Toronto". I compare London as the Grand Rapids type city. Grand Rapids is 2.5 hours from Detroit and London is similar distance to Toronto. Yet Grand Rapids is far more ambitious with building attractions, sports facilities, etc.
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Part of it is that Saskatoon and Regina are the two primate cities in SK and each serve massive rural hinterlands as the urban service centres.
So an arena project in Saskatoon is about building an amenity not just for Saskatoon, but basically all of Saskatchewan. That's still only 1.3M people, but given our isolation Saskatoon is the only place that's going to have this sort of thing for a vast expanse of area. This isolation and being the only show around is why the city punches above its weight on certain things relative to its size, like its dining scene or having an incomprehensibly world-class art gallery.
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