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Awesome build. Who says we can't have nice things.

That's a nice looking park. It appears it would have been faced in brick like an old traditional style ballpark. Love the arches too. The fact that the roof fully telescopes from over the field would be a big bonus- the least shadows the better. I hadn't considered that Rogers might be looking...

I was always in the retractable roof camp but but now I'm not so sure. They are a huge added expense and how many baseball games a year is a roof really necessary? Rogers spent 10M in 2017 alone for the roof patch-up.

I was surprised by how small Fenway is too. They might even be able to get a lot of the stands completed before they even touch the dome- assuming of course they go for a park that compact. Real grass and a fantastic skyline view to boot.

Wrigley field also.

It looks like they probably could get a good start on a new park to the south if they secure the land abutting lakeshore. Fenway is to scale on the right. Note this is a small open air park however. But if that is what they are aiming for it doesn't seem unfeasible. If they did the exterior in...

The astrodome wasn't demolished at all- they just blew-up the exterior ramps. The stadium is right next to a newer one so a major implosion would be very tricky. They may have to dismantle much of it as they did with Yankee Stadium- the latter itself sat very close to some residential buildings...

When was the Astrodome demolished? I read it was still standing in a fairly recent article.

It would be a good location, and the earlier point about the orientation of the field in the Portlands is a good one. However I'm not sure funneling 30,000- 40,000 people through the tunnel is going to work well. There would need to be better connectivity. I do like the idea though but I really...

In terms of attendance the central downtown location is definitely more advantageous. Other ballclubs have even pointed to Toronto when deciding on relocating their venues- that is one thing they did get right.

It seems like there is a similar love/hate situation with the Houston Astrodome- the so called "eight wonder of the world" and first domed multi-purpose stadium. Also a massive bunker the cost of the demo was much exaggerated in a campaign to keep it- which would have been the most expensive in...

There seems to be a few major sports teams actually going from grass to a newer artificial turf. This includes the new stadium for the Texas Rangers which also has a retractable roof and where MLB chose to host play-off games this past Fall...

I'm not sure how long it took but there is video on YouTube that shows the demo- which seems to have been done largely from the inside out. . I would be interested in knowing how long it took. Undoubtedly the dome is a more robust structure in a more sensitive area but $1B is absurd.

$1B is ridiculous for a demo. Can you source that info? Yankee stadium was dismantled for only $20-22M about ten years ago.

Best downtown development news I've heard in awhile. I would prefer Rogers vacate the Canada lands altogether and build their stadium elsewhere. The Jays can play in the dome until the new stadium is ready. Much rather see this publicly owned land for a project to serve the vast majority of...

That's cribbed from Bob Hope, who first made that quip decades ago.

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I always thought the restrictions were absolute as well- apparently not at all: NFRP

It's one of the more interesting parts of the waterfront, especially when the large ships come in. I wonder where they will eventually re-locate too- Hamilton perhaps.

Toronto has it easy relative to most of the country. -26 is just called winter in the Peg.