ChesterCopperpot
Senior Member
That is the rendering of the 22,500 seat stadium - which is what the bidders were designing towards. If seats were going to be added it would be in the open endzone areas.
That is the rendering of the 22,500 seat stadium - which is what the bidders were designing towards. If seats were going to be added it would be in the open endzone areas.
Yeah - I'm not buying the 40K number either.
The drawings I saw for each proposal with temporary seating only pushed capacity to 36K
Wow. It's funny see sometimes squabbling over details without doing research regarding expansion for Grey Cups.
97th Grey Cup (Calgary) - Added 13000 to capacity in one endzone (U shaped because of admin building.)
92nd Grey Cup (Ottawa) - Added over 20,000 temp seats in endzones.
91st Grey Cup (Regina) - Same as above.
This design allows for temp seats on both sides. Adding the 18000 or so required for the Grey Cup is going to be easy.
Only parts of the seating is temporary. I think 500-1000 are permanent.