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Phil Tank is a City Hall reporter for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Saskatoon’s experience with the city’s new art gallery shows why it’s important to start talking about a possible new downtown arena and a new downtown library during this fall’s election.

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While some politicians might suggest these two projects loom too far in the future to talk about them now, some decisions will be made over the next four years on both a new downtown arena and a new central library.

Even if those decisions wind up as rejections or postponements, they are still decisions.

The project to build a new downtown library has been around at least a decade, but the library board will start looking at potential sites this fall.

Meanwhile, the SaskTel Centre arena and TCU Place convention centre are teaming up to study the viability of a new downtown arena to replace suburban SaskTel Centre and the possibility of a combined downtown facility.