Toronto Rogers Centre Renovations | ?m | ?s | Toronto Blue Jays | Populous

Mercenary said:
I think we just need to bite the bullet and demolish the entire Skydome and build a new venue. Jays can play in Montreal or Buffalo for a few years until the Stadium is built.
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Alternatively, the Jays can bite the bullet and just deal with playing in the Skydome until the sun expands and kills us all.
 
Montreal is out of the question the soccer and football team have said they no longer can play games at Olympic Stadium.
 
Mercenary said:
Skydome is like the first kid in the neighborhood to get a nice flasy toy....but then suddenly it becomes very dated.

Skydome opened in 1989 but by 1995 it was already obsolete when Camden Yards opened in Baltimore which showed how to do baseball specific venues right.

I think we just need to bite the bullet and demolish the entire Skydome and build a new venue. Jays can play in Montreal or Buffalo for a few years until the Stadium is built.
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they absolutely cannot play in Montreal.
 
The size (sq footage) of the Scotia Bank Arena is probably one of its only cons. It is easily among the smaller building in both the NBA and NHL.

This deficiency was shown when the NBA all star game came to Toronto a few years ago and part of the events festivities were moved to the Coca Cola Coliseum. Even then there were constraints due to the limited size of the physical building.

I suspect that they might be able to expand the upper level concourses out by cantilevering out over the sidewalks, but this would be a major undertaking. The office building could be razed and incorporated into the building, again involving significant costs. The lower bowl, however doesn't have much room to expand into. Unless they take some of the galleria space, or expand again into Maple Leaf Square.
 
Woodbridge_Heights said:
The size (sq footage) of the Scotia Bank Arena is probably one of it's only cons. It is easily among the smaller building in both the NBA and NHL.

This deficiency was shown when the NBA all star game came to Toronto a few years ago and part of the events festivities were moved to the Coca Cola Coliseum. Even then there were constraints due to the limited size of the physical building.

I suspect that they might be able to expand the upper level concourses out by cantilevering out over the sidewalks, but this would be a major undertaking. The office building could be razed and incorporated into the building, again involving significant costs. The lower bowl, however doesn't have much room to expand into. Unless they take some of the galleria space, or expand again into Maple Leaf Square.
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The NHL may have something to say about razing the office building.

I believe their War Room and Toronto HQ are in there.
 
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Obvious analysis: walls are closer in but also mostly higher (CF is lower, interestingly!)
Somewhere, baseball nerds are overlaying last year's spray charts to see if it's actually as balanced an approach as the Jays seem to be aiming for.
 
So, more doubles and triples, slight drop in home runs BUT without doing more complicated analysis that takes launch angles etc. into account, hard to just easily map like what hits-to-the-wall last year would be home runs now (and vice versa).

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One think they should have added to the renovation is coming up something grandiose for celebrating past players and management instead of the cheap looking level of excellence which consists of blue backboard letters and lots of glue, why couldn’t we come up with a different but similar to what the Yankees have in their outfield. Another idea is have a huge blue jay in around centre field and have smaller blue jays around the stadium such like this image, trying to get the Rogers centre to feel like it’s the blue jays house44BAB067-C8F3-4BC7-B5F3-6925D8297ADF.jpeg
 
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many7695 said:
Another idea is have a huge blue jay in around centre field and have smaller blue jays around the stadium such like this image, trying to get the Rogers centre to feel like it’s the blue jays house
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That sounds kind of tacky. Also, what image are you talking about?
 
many7695 said:
One think they should have added to the renovation is coming up something grandiose for celebrating past players and management instead of the cheap looking level of excellence which consists of blue backboard letters and lots of glue, why couldn’t we come up with a different but similar to what the Yankees have in their outfield. Another idea is have a huge blue jay in around centre field and have smaller blue jays around the stadium such like this image, trying to get the Rogers centre to feel like it’s the blue jays house
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I don’t see the image you are referencing?
 
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