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The city says it won’t be rebuilding the collapsed Fairview Arena, leaving the community to look at what the site could be used for.

The arena roof came crashing down a year ago, just one day after structural concerns about the building were raised.

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An independent engineering firm that assessed the arena collapse said there were “multiple factors that may have contributed to the roof failure,” and area Coun. Gian-Carlo Carra said there is “no smoking gun” on what brought the roof down.

“It’s a combination of just the age of the building, the building science at the time (of construction), and probably the hot-cold cycle that the interior space went through,” Carra said.

The city said rebuilding the single-rink arena wouldn’t “address regional needs” for multi-sheet facilities, and James McLaughlin, acting director of Calgary recreation, said the Fairview site can’t accommodate a facility of that size.