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Update: Oilers Entertainment Group spokesperson Tim Shipton said on Thursday, July 23, that the organization was no longer moving ahead with this original plan but confirmed OEG was working on a strategy on how to involve fans safely.

Hockey fans in Edmonton may be watching NHL playoff games while enjoying a brew or two at an outdoor venue near Rogers Place.

The Oilers Entertainment Group plans to open a drive-in and outdoor venue, which would include a beer garden or tent, on the grounds of the former Baccarat Casino at the corner of 104th Avenue and 101st Street.

Tim Shipton, a spokesperson for the OEG, said they are working with the City of Edmonton's civic events branch to set up a physically-distanced Oilers FanFest zone.

The plan is to launch the venue Aug. 1 and screen evening and weekend games through to the Stanley Cup finals, Shipton said.

Shipton estimates they'll show about 80 games but if the FanFest zone is successful and there's more demand, the OEG will open the venue for more games.

Social distancing is hard enough to do when you're sober.- Coun. Scott McKeen

The idea of social gatherings during NHL games isn't an automatic selling point for Coun. Scott McKeen.

'I know that we all need something, to break our monotony and give us something to be delighted by,' McKeen said in an interview Tuesday.

McKeen, however, is wary about the ability for fans to celebrate safely.

'Social distancing is hard enough to do when you're sober,' he said. 'And you know — good luck when people have had a few pops and are also then in celebration when their team has scored a goal and won.'

Still, McKeen recognizes that people are excited for the NHL to start up again and hopes the hub city vibe will help the Oilers make it to the playoffs.

'If there's some injection of cash into the community and those guys run their beer garden well and the bars are really quite disciplined in restricting the numbers and keeping people from high-fiving and hugging, then it'll all be good,' McKeen told CBC News.

'But there'll be no joy in Mudville if COVID-19 increases.'

A spokesperson for the City of Edmonton, Karen McDonnell, said the OEG will have to get the appropriate permits and business licensing to host any fan activities.

The OEG plan must also fall within current guidelines and be approved by Alberta Health Services, the Edmonton Police Service and the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission, McDonnell noted.

Tom McMillan, a spokesperson for Alberta Health, said as with any outdoor event, the organizers will be required to follow guidelines set out by the chief medical officer of health.

'This guidance is intended to protect the public and limit the spread of COVID-19,' McMillan wrote in an email.

The OEG continues to create a bubble around Rogers Place for NHL players and this week erected a fence around the building.

Often-criticized as Edmonton's ugliest building, it's being torn down Thursday

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It's been described as Edmonton's ugliest building, sitting on a site that is the 'gateway to downtown from the north.'

And on Thursday, the squat Baccarat Casino building, with its red brick exterior and pale green roof, is being torn down to make room for another surface parking lot in Ice District.

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Constructed in 1996, the building has sat empty since September 2016 when owner Gateway Casinos closed it to open the Grand Villa Casino attached to Rogers Place.

A demolition permit for the building was first granted in 2016 but last week, the Oilers Entertainment Group finally announced that the demolition would go ahead.

'We've heard loud and clear from Edmontonians that the Baccarat has become an eyesore,' OEG spokesperson Tim Shipton said last week. 'We know that, and so we want to get the building down and get the site cleared up.'

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Edmonton city councillor Scott McKeen, whose ward includes downtown, told CBC News in 2017 that he hoped something 'spectacular' would be built on the northwest corner of 104th Avenue and 101st Street. McKeen has often made references to the building's ugliness.

Max Amerongen, a spokesperson for Edmonton design organization MADE, said the casino was built for $2.2 million in 1996. Architect Gene Dub was associated with its construction, Amerongen told CBC Radio's Edmonton AMon Thursday.

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'Knowing those two things about it made me look at [the building] a little bit differently,' he said. 'If you've got a $2-million budget to work with, it's quite an interesting move to build a big tower with a large chunk of that just as signage …

'It's actually a surprisingly interesting building for what I'm sure it must have been one of the more boring briefs that an architect would deal with.'

Repurposing the site for surface parking is functional but unnecessary given the amount of parking available in the immediate vicinity of Ice District, Amerongen added.

'I don't think a gravel parking lot is the solution to any of Edmonton's problems,' he said.

Demolition was to get underway Thursday morning at 10:15 a.m.

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