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TOareaFan said:
if they are going to renovate the hotel area they are gonna spend a decent chunk of the $250MM budget just buying the hotel from its owners.
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It depends. Own can be quite colloquial. Likely somewhere in the 50-99 year lease range.

There is a reason the stadium itself sold for so little, there are so many legal encumbrances (long term deals at low to no revenue) stretching back all the way to the initial financing. Given the long term nature of those deals, I have to wonder if replacing the stadium on the same site was ever really an option.
 
CityRider said:
I believe the translucent roof panel problem was already talked about much earlier in this discussion, but for reference, here's some info on why they don't use them: https://groovyhistory.com/houston-astrodome
"At first the team played on grass, utilizing the translucent panels to keep the field green. Unfortunately, the engineers involved failed to take into account the vision of outfielders. During afternoon games the translucent panels would blind players, adding more than a degree of difficulty in catching fly balls."
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Fair point. My only caveat would be that the Astrodome was built in the mid-60s and glass technology might now allow for something that mitigates this issue. But everyone knows that the roof in Tampa Bay has this problem and clearly we don't want to replicate that. I just can't help but feel there is something cosmetic they can do with the roof that will make it look nicer, when closed. Jeeze, spray paint a sky mural on the inside!
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Darwinkgo said:
It depends. Own can be quite colloquial. Likely somewhere in the 50-99 year lease range.

There is a reason the stadium itself sold for so little, there are so many legal encumbrances (long term deals at low to no revenue) stretching back all the way to the initial financing. Given the long term nature of those deals, I have to wonder if replacing the stadium on the same site was ever really an option.
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Rogers owns the leasehold interest in the stadium...another company owns the leasehold interest in the hotel....so Rogers can't just arbitrarily renovate the hotel part.
 
animatronic said:
They just replaced the current roof membrane. 0% chance they’re going to change it in the next decade.
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"Boys, we need transparent roof paneling on the cheap."

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daptive said:
I wonder how feasible is it to stretch a thin white fabric across the interior steel supports to make the interior more friendly less industrial.
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BC Place has fabric to block off the upper level during Whitecaps games to make it more intimate.

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Vancouver Whitecaps FC - BC Place

A closer look at the stadium of MLS club Vancouver Whitecaps FC
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T.E.C.II said:
What have they changed?
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that pic appears to be from the Jays Shop and seems to be showing scaffolding put up in the westjet flight deck, likely supporting the new scoreboard they are installing above but none of that is visible so hard to see what they are doing or what the progress is
 
Am I the only one who remembers the gym in the Skydome? I am definitely not imagining this because I used to go there regularly. It was one of the only gyms in the area that had squash courts.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was a Goodlife. One day I went in, and the receptionist told me they were closing for a week for renovations, and they just never reopened. I believe this was around 2010?

I ask because it was a massive space and I can't believe it's just been sitting empty all this time.
 
gei said:
Am I the only one who remembers the gym in the Skydome? I am definitely not imagining this because I used to go there regularly. It was one of the only gyms in the area that had squash courts.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was a Goodlife. One day I went in, and the receptionist told me they were closing for a week for renovations, and they just never reopened. I believe this was around 2010?

I ask because it was a massive space and I can't believe it's just been sitting empty all this time.
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I actually do remember that! It was Premier Fitness though. The entire company went under.
 
Tuscani01 said:
I actually do remember that! It was Premier Fitness though. The entire company went under.
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Ah right. But that space must still be there... it was a fairly decent gym. I wonder what it's being used for, or if it is just sitting abandoned for the last decade.
 
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