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

They can make it seem more asymmetrical without changing the fence. With the rotating seats removed they could put stacked bullpens in the right field bleachers or a tired patio seating section in the left. Varying the size of the foul territory could help the look. Rotating the diamond to put the hotel in left field would really shake things up.
 
animatronic said:
They can make it seem more asymmetrical without changing the fence. With the rotating seats removed they could put stacked bullpens in the right field bleachers or a tired patio seating section in the left. Varying the size of the foul territory could help the look. Rotating the diamond to put the hotel in left field would really shake things up.
Click to expand...
rather than shake things up...rotating the diamond to put the hotel in left field would first mean tearing things up and then rebuilding a significant portion of the stadium......keep in mind, anything done to Rogers Centre has to be done between late October and late March.
 
From CBC News:

Toronto architect Mark Berest — a principal at B+S Architects who has worked on several stadium projects, including Regina's Mosaic Stadium — knows what he would do with the Rogers Centre.

Berest would start by "invigorating" the space outside the stadium, "bringing more retail, more parkland, more development… making connections to other public spaces, maybe even to [nearby Lake Ontario]."

"Those things are very important to the vitality," he says. "You can see with the Air Canada Centre, what the Raptors [and Maple Leafs] have done outside and how that's working so well in terms of those public spaces."

The challenge for the Blue Jays is that the team owns very little of the land surrounding the dome.

Still, they say that space is part of the renovation plans.

"That is definitely one of the things we've talked about, the journey of how fans get to the ballpark," says Sebastian Gatica, the Blue Jays' VP of fan engagement. "Some just want to come in. For others it's an event, a social thing."

"We've done research to see who our fans really are, their habits, their rituals. This is a fan-centric project to enhance their experience."
Click to expand...

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-rogers-centre-future-1.4079505

AoD
 
TOareaFan said:
rather than shake things up...rotating the diamond to put the hotel in left field would first mean tearing things up and then rebuilding a significant portion of the stadium......keep in mind, anything done to Rogers Centre has to be done between late October and late March.
Click to expand...
The lower bowl is going to get replaced-that's more than doable in a single off season. The 200-500 levels wouldn't be affected by a shift.
 
I wonder how far $200-450 million will go.

It seems like the renovations at Progressive field have been around $100 million to this date ($150 million was invested into upgrading BMO Field)- and the renovations at the Rogers Centre will need to be far more substantial- I think we'll be seeing far more happening to the inside of the stadium (realigning the seating, upgrades to the field, more retail, concourse upgrades, etc.) than to the facade or roof.


A comparative $400 million renovation for a NFL stadium:

Every seat in Sun Life Stadium has been replaced, complete with a fresh take on the concourse experience in the 100 and 300 levels. As part of a two-year $400 million renovation process, all the seats were ripped out of the stadium, and the lower bowl was regraded to bring the new aqua seats 24 feet closer to the field.

The venue drops from 76,000 seats to just over 65,300 and creates new “seating experiences” for different levels of ticket holders.

HOK architect Jeff Sittner tells SI.com that remodeling the seating bowl, which was originally designed for baseball and football, included redesigning the sideline to bring seats lower and closer to the field and removing upper bowl corner sections for “gathering zones that are open to the action.”

Away from the seats, fans will find new concessions and amenities on the 100 and 300 level concourses as part of this HOK-led redesign.
Click to expand...

https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/08/17/nfl-stadium-renovations-dolphins-49ers-browns-titans-panthers
 
Last edited:
Was it this new paving treatment that was put in over the winter? Or is this already old?

DSC09494.jpg
DSC09499.jpg

NEWISH • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • OLDISH

42
 

Attachments

  • DSC09494.jpg
    DSC09494.jpg
    301.9 KB · Views: 2,196
  • DSC09499.jpg
    DSC09499.jpg
    456.1 KB · Views: 2,118
interchange42 said:
Was it this new paving treatment that was put in over the winter? Or is this already old?

View attachment 107627 View attachment 107628
NEWISH • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • OLDISH

42
Click to expand...

The scattered stone pattern is indeed new. The lined up paving stones is the old. It looks like they're doing this in phases around the stadium.
 
My recollection is that there is about 8 to 12 feet between the outfield walls and front of the outfield seating decks (the distance narrows towards CF). Any movement of the walls would need to dig up the concrete to put new footings for the wall foundations.

1: The walls could be pushed back to line up with the outfield seating. This would require relocating the bullpens (As mentioned CF?)
2: Wall heights could be altered. Although Rogers Centre already has one of the taller outfield walls in the league. Push walls back, lower their height? Gives more opportunity for Pillar type over the wall catches.
3: How about an all dirt warning track instead of the current coloured turf and different fill
4: No to a monument park. I think they already have too many ways to honour past players (level of excellence, retired #)
5: Outfield 500 level is definitely a candidate for a WestJet Flight Deck type treatment
6: Partner with the Rail deck park and create a Maple Leaf Square type area in the North area of the Dome. Repurpose the old Sightlines and Hard Rock Cafe restaurants for ticketing as the ticket offices along Bremner clog the sidewalk/street on game days. Possibly make this the new "Grand Entrance" to the stadium so that the field opens up to you as you enter (as per the quoted Mosaic field)
7: Create a "Chairman's club" ala the ACC for in the action seats ticket holders
 
Woodbridge_Heights said:
1: The walls could be pushed back to line up with the outfield seating. This would require relocating the bullpens (As mentioned CF?)
2: Wall heights could be altered. Although Rogers Centre already has one of the taller outfield walls in the league. Push walls back, lower their height? Gives more opportunity for Pillar type over the wall catches.
Click to expand...
Pushing back the outfield walls would increase the field size. Centrefield is already at waht is pretty much standard around the league with a few exceptions for some of the older parks like Fenway. Most Major league and even Minor League parks ar 400 feet to centre field. Tiger stadium used to be 440 but it was shared with the Detroit Lions when it was first built, When they moved to Comerica park centerfield was at one pint 404 feet but they moved the wall to 400 feet, the flagpole in center field there was the one from tiger stadium and used to sit in the wrong tack in centre field and had aline painted on if balls hit over it it was a home run.
 
8. Get rid of the rid of the Ted Rogers statue. I get that the team and stadium are owned by Rogers but what has Ted Rogers contributed to the Jays or MLB? It's kind of insulting to baseball. His statue belongs outside Rogers HQ.
 
MetroMan said:
8. Get rid of the rid of the Ted Rogers statue. I get that the team and stadium are owned by Rogers but what has Ted Rogers contributed to the Jays or MLB? It's kind of insulting to baseball. His statue belongs outside Rogers HQ.
Click to expand...
I'd like to see an army of Jays fans with ropes take it down like the Statue of Saddam Hussein was in Iraq. They apparently put it there because he's the rogers that the company is named for and the curet hea is his son, it relly should be at their company headquarters and we should have saturees of Blue Jay greats like Roberto Alomar, Joe Carter and Dave Stieb and probably Tom Check too.
 
4: No to a monument park. I think they already havetoomany ways tohonour past players (level of excellence, retired #


You got to be kidding the level of excellence is cheap looking pile of crap, and that's how you want to honor past players, like said before the level of excellence consist of lots of glue, a blue background, name of player and screws
 
MetroMan said:
8. Get rid of the rid of the Ted Rogers statue. I get that the team and stadium are owned by Rogers but what has Ted Rogers contributed to the Jays or MLB? It's kind of insulting to baseball. His statue belongs outside Rogers HQ.
Click to expand...
Well, there are many who believe that if Rogers had not bought the Blue Jays in 2000 and then the SkyDome in 2004....Bud Selig's contraction idea would have been far more deliverable.......for it to work MLB wanted to contract by two teams....the Expos were easily identifiable as team #1 ....but the list of candidates for team #2 were all reluctant candidates (including the Jays).....had Rogers not bought the team they would have had much weaker ownership and would have been far more willing to listen to MLB's contraction overtures/offers.....in the end MLB did buy the Expos but just relocated them to Washington and left the other teams as is......

....so, the theory goes, Rogers saved not only the Jays....but in a weird way delivered baseball back to America's capital.
 
You must log in or register to post here.

Back
Top