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The debate about a new downtown Saskatoon arena begins again next week.

A highly anticipated study on the future of the city’s aging suburban arena and downtown convention centre is scheduled to be released at a city council committee meeting on Monday.

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The market analysis will examine the possible future of SaskTel Centre, which marks 30 years in 2018, and a possible downtown replacement.

The study will also look at the TCU Place convention centre, which opened in its downtown location 50 years ago on April 1.

“We keep planning for what’s ahead and without a plan you can’t move ahead,” Coun. Troy Davies said in an interview this week. “We need to ask the questions on what’s going to happen: Refurbish or rebuild.”

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SaskTel Centre and TCU Place are city-owned facilities that are run by independent boards. The boards commissioned the study to help chart their future.

The boards budgeted $261,000 for the study and awarded the contract to HLT Advisory Inc. of Toronto and Conventional Wisdom Corp. of Orlando, Fla.